From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f204.google.com ([209.85.223.204]:54754 "EHLO mail-iw0-f204.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752481AbZHSSux convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:50:53 -0400 Received: by iwn42 with SMTP id 42so202793iwn.33 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:50:54 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090819183506.GG5905@tuxdriver.com> References: <1250530052-14783-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <20090819150138.GB5905@tuxdriver.com> <20090819180235.GA7126@mosca> <20090819183506.GG5905@tuxdriver.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:50:34 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e890908191150h6fa8a811u30c57420afd17e08@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/33] wireless: kconfig updates To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Luis Rodriguez , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:35 AM, John W. Linville 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? Luis