On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 05:49:59PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Manuel Estrada Sainz wrote:
>
> > Actually, orinoco-exp could be used as a test bed for monitor mode,
> > scanning, hermesap, ... and merge it back to the standard orinoco as it
> > probes to work right. For now it should be a test bed for USB support :)
> [snip]
> > > If you are going to create a separate driver, you should rename the
> > > module. I wouldn't bother with separate modules. Just link hermes,
> > > orinoco and orinoco_usb to one driver, say orinoco-usb.
> >
> > No, I want to stay as similar to standard orinoco as possible to make
> > merging easier.
>
> OK, I understand you are suggesting to fork an experimental branch. Then
> I suggest that we stop this discussion in LKML and return to orinoco-devel
> to discuss the situation.
>
> There is nothing wrong with the fork if all other ways to keep the code
> together have been exhausted. But since this wasn't discussed in the
> orinoco-devel mailing list, I think it's too early to fork.
>
> One thing we haven't considered is restructuring the code to separate
> common and different parts of the USB and the non-USB drivers.
>
> The firmware issue has been solved in the 2.5 kernels, so it shouldn't
> prevent David from including your code.
Monday the latest I'll start a thread in orinoco-devel, unless you do
it first :)
Regards
Manuel
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