Re: [Orinoco-devel] orinoco_usb Request For Comments

[Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty-bulk@ranty.pantax.net>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 05:49:59PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Manuel Estrada Sainz wrote:
> 
> >  Actually, orinoco-exp could be used as a test bed for monitor mode,
> >  scanning, hermesap, ... and merge it back to the standard orinoco as it
> >  probes to work right. For now it should be a test bed for USB support :)
> [snip]
> > > If you are going to create a separate driver, you should rename the
> > > module.  I wouldn't bother with separate modules.  Just link hermes,
> > > orinoco and orinoco_usb to one driver, say orinoco-usb.
> >
> >  No, I want to stay as similar to standard orinoco as possible to make
> >  merging easier.
> 
> OK, I understand you are suggesting to fork an experimental branch.  Then
> I suggest that we stop this discussion in LKML and return to orinoco-devel
> to discuss the situation.
> 
> There is nothing wrong with the fork if all other ways to keep the code
> together have been exhausted.  But since this wasn't discussed in the
> orinoco-devel mailing list, I think it's too early to fork.
> 
> One thing we haven't considered is restructuring the code to separate
> common and different parts of the USB and the non-USB drivers.
> 
> The firmware issue has been solved in the 2.5 kernels, so it shouldn't
> prevent David from including your code.

 Monday the latest I'll start a thread in orinoco-devel, unless you do
 it first :) 

 Regards

 	Manuel

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