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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:39:23 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Andre Oppermann <oppermann@monzoon.net>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: conf/25577: [PATCH] ifconfig support for wireless network cards
Message-ID:  <20010321143923.C7887@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <200103212220.f2LMK2g31484@freefall.freebsd.org>; from oppermann@monzoon.net on Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:20:02PM -0800
References:  <200103212220.f2LMK2g31484@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:20:02PM -0800, Andre Oppermann wrote:
>  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?

It depends.  If combining them reduces the features of either driver,
I'm absolutly against it.  On the other hand if you can save substantial
code by combining them and you don't lose functionality then it's
probably OK.  The thing is, I don't think you can combine them without
losing functionality.  It might be better to look for code that can be
pushed into a kernel support library.

Please don't take this as a slight to your work, but I'm mostly
concerned that this change not get tied into a larger driver rework
effort.  I don't think this change would negativly impact such a project
if it were comitted and I don't want things to stall due to
circumstances beyond my control.  I'm fairly neutral on the idea of
combination in the abstract though I will note that down that road lies
the Linux eth0 for good or ill.

-- Brooks

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