Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:40514 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757569Ab0LUA3W (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:29:22 -0500 Received: by qyj19 with SMTP id 19so4657090qyj.19 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:29:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D0FF4DC.4010409@lwfinger.net> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:29:16 -0600 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John W. Linville" CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski , Hin-Tak Leung Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtl818x: move rtl8180 and rtl8187 to separate subdirectories References: <1292876551-26749-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <1292876551-26749-1-git-send-email-linville@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/20/2010 02:22 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > These drivers share one header file, but nothing else. Worse, both > drivers use the rtl8225 part with different register settings. The > results has been some ugly naming -- let's simplify that. > > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville > --- This is a good time to change this as I have heard from Realtek that their RTL8187SE driver that uses mac80211 is running, but not yet stable. When it is, a decision can be made if it should be in .../rtl818x/rtl8187/ or .../rtl818x/rtl8187se/. The new driver will also allow the staging driver to be removed. Larry