Re: State of the Union: Wireless

[Tim Tassonis <timtas@cubic.ch>]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:34:00PM +0100, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> > Like the OSS/Alsa or XFree3.x/XFree4.x situations.
> And OSS/ALSA is an example why this is not a good thing:
> - OSS in the kernel is unmaintained
Because it is dead, yes...

> - people forced to use OSS drivers can't use applications only 
>   supporting ALSA
That is another problem. The problem is different API's. With networking 
drivers, that should really not be a problem once the device is up. You 
don't speak differently to different network devices, so applications 
will just do fine.
> But if you have the possibility to choose which stack to use at the 
> beginning (as in the wireless case), the only reasonable solution is to 
> choose _one_ stack.
... _if_ you have the possibility, yes. But you might end up having 
chosen the wrong one. There is a reason why two stacks exist.
Tim


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