Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:55244 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753464Ab1CUOw6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:52:58 -0400 Received: by qyk7 with SMTP id 7so2494397qyk.19 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2011 07:52:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110321144603.GA7645@kroah.com> References: <20110319234524.GA7493@kroah.com> <20110320145421.GA13962@kroah.com> <20110320162200.GA17030@kroah.com> <20110320185216.GD19375@kroah.com> <20110321140505.GA7321@kroah.com> <20110321144603.GA7645@kroah.com> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:52:56 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: new utility kernel module for detecting cores in newer chipsets From: =?UTF-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= To: Greg KH Cc: Arend van Spriel , =?UTF-8?Q?Michael_B=C3=BCsch?= , Brett Rudley , Henry Ptasinski , John Linville , George Kashperko , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2011/3/21 Greg KH : > In digging through my archives, yes I did. > > But the proper thing to do is to quote portions in which you refer to > when talking about them.  Otherwise the reciever can easily be lost. > > Remember, some of us get _thousands_ of emails a day.  Remembering > context based on a subject: line is impossible, especially when the > thread is long gone from my inbox and buried in my archive. Right, sorry for that. >> The case is, we discussed ssb/ai driver layout few days ago. George >> shared idea of layout I agree with, nobody shared any objections. If >> everything goes fine, we should have nicely modularized driver/project >> supporting Broadcom's buses. >> >> In this situation I'm not really interested is simple ai driver >> stripped from brcm80211. According to me, it would led to harder >> maintenance and harder implementation of support for such a driver in >> b43. > > Ok, and I trust that you and Michael will work things out. > > I have no objections to what you want at all, why do you think I do? > I'm just handling getting the stuff in drivers/staging/ out of there, > that's it.  I trust the rest of you all to handle the design decisions > properly. > > And as there is no code here yet to complain about, I fail to see any > problem yet :) It was not directly to you, I believe you already many things to worry about, and are not really interested in getting into another driver layout :) I expected Michael and Arend to talk with us (mostly me and George) about current situation. -- Rafał