On Thursday 09 August 2007 16:21:09 Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 16:07 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Thursday 09 August 2007 16:00:47 Pavel Roskin wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 15:41 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > > > > > So, that said, I want to rename all the drivers. > > > > My plan was to rename "bcm43xx-mac80211" to "b43", so > > > > you could probably rename bcm4301 to b43-legacy or something > > > > shorter like b43-leg or maybe even b43-old. > > > > > > I think if bcm43xx will be replaced with its mac80211 port, it should > > > stay bcm43xx to preserve users' .config and fwpostfix settings. > > > > No it should not. bcm43xx-mac80211 requires different firmware. > > I think you misread me. "its mac80211 port" refers to bcm4301. I just > tried to avoid the bcm4301 name because it wasn't exposed in Linux > releases yet. > > Anyway, it's up to Larry, and he doesn't seem to dislike "legacy". >
Better rename it now to make clear what the driver _really_ is about, than having a bugreport each day that bcm43xx doesn't support device X anymore. There _will_ be a regression. That's the whole point of all this. And we want to make it as clear as possible how to progress (which driver to take in future). -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
