Hi Darren, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> ... > >> >> >> I am sponsoring this case for Quaker Fang. It is to provide a new >> wireless(802.11b/g) driver, ural(7D), for Ralink RT2500USB chipset. >> The requested release binding is micro/patch. >> >> The architecture and interface are clear enough, so this case is >> marked as "closed approved automatic". > > > It isn't clear to me why a separate driver from the existing ral(7D) > is needed because this is attached via USB rather that PCI. Is the > RT2500USB that different to the RT2500 that the ral(7D) driver > supports that a new driver is needed ? The RT2500USB register definitions are totally different with RT2500, although they have a similar prefix. > > However I did a tiny bit of research and found that *BSD have a > similar ral/ural split so it seems that other operating systems chose > this split. > > Also is this case setting any precedent that we should attempt to > prefix USB NIC drivers with 'u' ? No. Becuase the driver is ported from BSD, we'd like to use the same driver name with BSD, like other drivers, such as wpi, rtw. Thanks, -- Quaker
