Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:02:08 +0200 | From | Tomas Szepe <> | Subject | Re: ipw2100 wireless driver |
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On Aug-11 2004, Wed, 17:51 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:33:33PM +0200, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > There are many people who don't want to mess around with hotplug just > > to get a single driver to load. > > Then use a distribution that gets it right for you. Having gazillions > of diffferent firmware loaders just because people are too lazy to set > up the canonical one isn't where we want to go.
Agreed. But the point is, in the actual case of ipw2100, will the removal of 40 or so lines of code justify killing the functionality for those (lots) that use it? I don't think so. A nice /* duplicate this in another driver and die */ comment in the right place will do the job just fine IMHO.
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