Re: [PATCH] ipwireless_cs driver for 4G PC Card

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi David,

> > might it not make more sense to put all of that into a new
> > subdirectory, say, /drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless_cs?  that way,  
> > it's
> > more modular and it will keep that higher-level directory from
> > potentially getting cluttered with even more drivers.  and it would
> > let you drop the pointless "ipwireless_cs_" prefix from all of those
> > files as well.
>
> ok, will put it into ipwireless, and the _cs suffix will go away as  
> suggested
> elsewhere. The filenames will then get very generic names, do you have
> suggestion for better names? There are many drivers in own directory  
> and
> files inside have the same prefix. Maybe we can use names like ipw- 
> hw.c, etc.

don't use "ipw" as prefix. It is too close to the Intel wireless  
drivers and will only create confusion. The generic filenames in a  
subdirectory don't matter. The module name is what counts.

Regards

Marcel

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