Messages in this thread | | | From | Ivo van Doorn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] rt2x00: Implement support for rt2800pci | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:31:11 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Holger Schurig wrote: > > I don't agree on this, for starters the whole "abstraction > > layer as done in the staging driver, really obfuscated the code > > in multiple areas > > Ivo, you could look at Orinoco or Libertas. Both WLAN drivers > support a multitude of different hardware (Libertas: CF/PCMCIA, > SDIO, SD, USB and Orinoco: CF/PCMCIA, PCI, PPC_PMAC). And both > have hardware abstraction layers that don't suck, obfuscate or > create lots of duplicate code.
Thanks,
> So AFAIK it's not the question *IF* to do hardware abstraction > but only a question *HOW* to do it in an intelligent way. Don't > luck at one bad implementation and disregard the whole > concept :-)
Oh I completely agree, I am not against the extra abstraction layer, but I do want a nice looking solution. :) I'll take a look at the Orinoco approach.
Thanks,
Ivo
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