From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Mar 21 14:20: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23CE37B71A for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:20:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2LMK2g31484; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:20:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:20:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200103212220.f2LMK2g31484@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Andre Oppermann Subject: Re: conf/25577: [PATCH] ifconfig support for wireless network cards Reply-To: Andre Oppermann Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR conf/25577; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Andre Oppermann To: Brooks Davis Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/25577: [PATCH] ifconfig support for wireless network cards Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 23:11:53 +0100 Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:03:25PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote: > > I'm working on merging and cleaning up the wi() and an() drivers. I'll > > integrate this as well. > > You're merging the drivers? Is that actually a reasionable thing to do? > The Cisco cards have a very different programming interface and a > substantialy larger feature set. I know the have the same hardware and > the very bottem but they have entierly unrelated firmware. At least the drivers are very similiar and share a lot of the same base functions. The question is more of a policy sort. Is it better to have two similiar drivers or one driver with more conditional code? -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message