Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] compat-wireless: add orinoco to compat-wireless
From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Cc: lrodriguez@atheros.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	mcgrof@infradead.org
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:05:18 -0500
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On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:32 +0100, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> orinoco now depends on cfg80211. If compat-wireless was installed it
> will install its own version of cfg80211 and orinoco will not work any
> more because it wants to use the version shipped with the kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>

If orinoco is in compat-wireless and hostap is not, I'm concerned that
users with hostap would end up with a less capable orinoco driver.

I'm going to make a patch that would disable support for Prism chipset
in Orinoco by default.  It should have been done long ago, but I never
had a chance, and patches proposed by others had quality issues.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin