Re: State of the Union: Wireless

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:38:58PM +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote:
>...
> >We can always undo mistakes later, but 
> >we'll never get to that point if we don't start moving in one direction 
> >instead of ten.
> 
> You were right if there were ten, but there seem to be only two at the 
> moment. One stack will survive and one will die. There's no point in 
> deciding this now.

No, we'll end up with two stacks, some drivers using the first stack and 
some the second one.

You can't simply let one stack die because this would imply either 
rewriting all drivers using this stack or dropping support for some 
hardware.

> Tim

cu
Adrian

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