Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:47:22 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: ipw3945 status |
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On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 01:34:19PM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote:
> Why not get rid of the daemon like bsd did [0]? Otherwise in > 5 years you'll have 42 daemons running which communicate with > the firmware of various devices, each having a different inter- > face.
Because it would involve a moderate rewriting of the driver, and we'd have to carry a delta against Intel's code forever.
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