[haiku-commits] Re: r35158 - in haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/kernel/drivers/network/wlan: iprowifi2100 iprowifi2200 iprowifi3945 iprowifi4965 marvell88w8335 ...
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:06:54 +0100
Colin Günther <coling@xxxxxx> wrote:
> No file scanning required and never was :) So most obvious advantage
> of
> those settings files is that you don't have to rename the firmware
> files
> to match the driver internal ones.
>
> But after reading you post about optimizing the name mappings, I'm
> thinking about getting rid of those settings file. By moving the
> mapping
> into the glue code of the freebsd driver. Maybe this is what you had
> in
> mind anyway.
Depends - if a newer/different firmware version usually requires a
newer/different driver then this would be okay. Otherwise it needs a
bit more maintenance effort to keep both in sync.
In any case, I saw the scanning part as a feature in order to get rid
of the settings files :-)
Having it in the glue code should work good enough, though.
Bye,
Axel.
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