On 10/21/11 3:01 PM, Adam Gensler wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a question on the updated alix2 target in trunk. It's great to see the > alix platform getting some updates in trunk. However, I noticed the default > inclusion of the ath5k and ath9k drivers. Alix boards don't come with > wireless built in. While it is true that you can add wireless to it, some > people do not, myself included. Most of the rest of the included drivers seem > to be foundational alix2 platform pieces. Technically the ath5k and ath9k > drivers aren't part of the base platform. > > The packages (kernel modules I guess), in question are: > > kmod-cfg80211 > kmod-mac80211 > kmod-ath > kmod-ath5k > kmod-ath9k > hostapd > > I think it would be better to not include these by default. Presumably if > someone is selecting the alix2 target form menuconfig they are already > building them own image and can easily select them manually? If someone > downloads a prebuilt image from openwrt.com they could always manually > include the ath5k or ath9k drivers as necessary afterwards. > > Thoughts? > > Adam
We're talking about a platform with 256MB or 512MB of DRAM and a minimum of 1GB of CF. If anything, I think I'd argue for including all of the Wifi drivers that come with miniPCI and miniPCI-e (USB 2.0) versions, since this is the OpenWRT (as in Wireless Router) distro... Worst case, someone can uninstall the drivers if they don't want them. -Philip _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
