Maxime Bizon <[email protected]> writes: > but from my POV, your pattern is: build new chipset, obsolete previous > chipset, fork current firmware, make uncompatible changes to both > firmware & host driver to accomodate new chipset peculiarities. > > and eventually, if a customer requests a mainline linux driver, then > write one... this is what I'd call "dumping"
BTW, this is exactly what I meant with "dumping" as well. Having multiple drivers with similar functionality is difficult for everyone. Creating a new driver with new bugs is much worse than making smaller, incremental changes to the existing driver. And of course code sharing is always preferred, but not a hard requirement for drivers. -- Kalle Valo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
