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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/33] wireless: kconfig updates
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:57:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090819195743.GB8441@mosca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090819185431.GI5905@tuxdriver.com>

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:54:31AM -0700, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:50:34AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:35 AM, John W.
> > Linville<linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:02:35AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:01:38AM -0700, John W. Linville wrote:
> > >
> > >> > I'm sorry, I know you've put some effort into this.  A lot of it seems
> > >> > fine, even welcome.  But I don't really see the point of grouping
> > >> > everything by manufacturer -- it just seems to add an extra level of
> > >> > organization for no particular reason...?
> > >>
> > >> Well at first I didn't really intend to group them by manufacturer really,
> > >> I just tried to get rid of clutter and wanted to group related drivers
> > >> together to make it easier to find for users. After a few iterations the
> > >> manufacturer grouping just happened naturally, and later it also just seemed
> > >> natural to remove the typical postfix "wireless device support" or the like.
> > >>
> > >> I welcome others to try to clean the stuff up some more in a different
> > >> way but I think you may end up with something very similar.
> > >
> > > Can we just drop the "INTEL_80211" and the like, keeping the comments
> > > and basic organization in the Kconfig files as you have them?
> >
> > Well so to group all of Intel stuff we do need this, at least I can't
> > think of a way to do it. If we don't want to group intel stuff then we
> > can remove it. Is there a downside to this grouping, for example?
> 
> Is there an upside to it?

Well sure if you don't want to see any intel driver on that section,
and there are plenlty of Intel wireless drivers.

> Putting them side-by-side in Kconfig
> is fine, but do people really want to (de-)select Intel drivers as
> a group?

Well I do, for instance, just as I expect Intel folks may want to just
disable Atheros drivers when developing, and just as I expect Broadcom
developers to just care about Broadcom drivers, and the same goes for
Ralink.

Intel clutter on the main driver kconfig was really my main motivation
to start this. I understand if you don't see much point to it though.

  Luis

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-19 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-17 17:26 [PATCH v5 00/33] wireless: kconfig updates Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 01/33] wireless: move iwmc3200wifi closer to the other intel drivers Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 02/33] wireless: group intel wireless drivers on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 03/33] wireless: move MWL8K right below libertas " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 05/33] wireless: move p54 and prism54 drivers closer " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 06/33] wireless: group Conexant / STEricsson drivers in kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 07/33] wireless: move zd1211rw option closer to old ZyDAS on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 08/33] wireless: group ZyDAS wireless drivers in kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 09/33] wireless: group Realtek wireless on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 10/33] wireless: group Broadcom drivers " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 11/33] wireless: clarify rndis_wlan is not broadcom specific Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 12/33] wireless: group Atmel wireless together on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 13/33] wireless: move AIRO_CS closer to AIRO_CS Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 19:22   ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-08-17 19:45     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 14/33] wireless: group Cisco together on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 15/33] wireless: move group drivers together Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 16/33] wireless: organize group drivers alphabetically Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 17/33] wireless: remove IEEE 802.11 description on hostapd Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 18/33] wireless: move mac80211_hwsim to top level wireless driver menu Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 19/33] wireless: organize individual drivers alphabetically Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 20/33] wireless: simplify WLAN_PRE80211 entries Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 21/33] wireless: simplify WLAN_80211 entries Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 22/33] wireless: remove "Wireless" from rndis kconfig entry Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 23/33] wireless: downgrade TI driver from menuconfig to config Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 24/33] wireless: Update TI kconfig description Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 25/33] wireless: make ath consistent with the other groups Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 26/33] wireless: mark prism54 as deprecated and mark for removal Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 27/33] wireless: update top level wireless driver entry Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 28/33] wireless: update wireless kconfig description Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 29/33] wireless: update cfg80211 kconfig entry Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 30/33] wireless: update reg debug " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 31/33] wireless: update WIRELESS_EXT " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 32/33] wireless: update mac80211 " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 17:27 ` [PATCH v5 33/33] wireless: remove mac80211 rate selection extra menu Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-19 15:01 ` [PATCH v5 00/33] wireless: kconfig updates John W. Linville
2009-08-19 18:02   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-19 18:35     ` John W. Linville
2009-08-19 18:50       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-19 18:54         ` John W. Linville
2009-08-19 19:57           ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2009-08-19 19:08         ` Bob Copeland
2009-08-19 19:52           ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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