On Sunday 28 January 2007 02:56, Martin Langer wrote: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:45:40PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 06:36:07PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > On Saturday 27 January 2007 00:25, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > But while you use .v3, most people use the softmac driver without a > > > > postfix at all. > > > > > > I'm sorry. That's not our problem. ;) > > > That's either a distro or user problem. > > > > The idea is to define a standard so that all the distros use the same > > naming scheme. That way, we avoid situations where some distros document > > that people use one scheme, and people try to use that with another > > distro. The unfortunate truth of things is that most distributions don't > > coordinate with each other, so it helps things hugely if upstream > > provides information about how to define names. A simple note on the > > driver website would probably be sufficient, if you'd prefer not to > > enforce this in the code. > > Defining standards is a bad way in Open Source. I think we should offer > as much freedom as we can. That's the reason why fwcutter comes with a > large list of binaries, which are ready for extraction, instead of only > one candidate.... > > > I would vote for a fwcutter option --autopostfix where the complete > version numbers will be taken as postfix. Then you can easily install a
Ok, that's a rather good idea. If you want to implement it, go for it. ;) -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
