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From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	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 15:08:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6c5339f0908191208m2aef3305lcb4cadabeb72733f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890908191150h6fa8a811u30c57420afd17e08@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Luis R.
Rodriguez<lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:

> 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?

One (admittedly hand-wavy) argument against vendor grouping is that you
don't always know who made the chip.  So you have CompanyA buying CompanyB's
IP, making a product, and then we write a driver for CompanyA's device
called awifi2000.  Meanwhile CompanyB sells it to CompanyC too so their
"C Wifi Plus" product happens to work with the awifi2000 driver.  Now you
have to reorg the menus to put it under CompanyB.

I imagine this is a lot less likely with wireless, if you know enough to
write a driver, you usually know who made it.  But ISTR it happened a lot
with v4l stuff since there are more commodity parts on those cards.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-19 19:08 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
2009-08-19 19:08         ` Bob Copeland [this message]
2009-08-19 19:52           ` Luis R. Rodriguez

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