fwe -> fwip in GENERIC?

Doug Rabson dfr at nlsystems.com
Tue Oct 18 05:34:05 PDT 2005


On 18 Oct 2005, at 13:21, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 10:12:18 +0100
> Doug Rabson <dfr at nlsystems.com> wrote:
>
>> The fwip implementation should be fully compatible with the RFC
>> standard. I'm happy for fwip to replace fwe in GENERIC unless anyone
>> else has an objection.
>>
>
>     I disagree.  Because fwip and fwe can exist together.
>     So I think that fwip should be added to GENERIC.

Sure - both drivers are tiny and they don't step on each others toes.  
Longer term, I think we should try to phase out the fwe driver since  
it doesn't interoperate with any other systems (except Df, I guess).




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