From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:35865 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753016AbZHOH77 (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:59:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 34/34] wireless: mark prism54.ko as deprecated and mark for removal From: Johannes Berg To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, aquilaver@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Williams , Kai Engert , Jean Tourrilhes , Tim de Waal , Roy Marples , Alan Cox , Christian Lamparter , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Steinbrink , Tim Gardner In-Reply-To: <1250281559-13041-35-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> References: <1250281559-13041-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1250281559-13041-35-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-tv9P+t3g7Muy8KHLHc/m" Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:59:42 +0200 Message-Id: <1250323182.15069.0.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-tv9P+t3g7Muy8KHLHc/m Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 16:25 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > The preferred modules is p54.ko, which also supports FullMAC > PCI / Cardbus devices. We schedule removal for 2.6.34. Reason > to remove this is no one really is testing prism54.ko anymore, > and while it works p54.ko provides support for the same hardware. > It should be noted I have been told some FullMAC devices may not > have worked with the SoftMAC driver but to date we have yet to > recieve a single bug report regarding this. If there are users > out there please let us know! Not that I care about the changelog, but I do find it illogical to refer to modules w/o .ko everywhere and then with .ko in the changelog. Of course you were consistent ;) > - The module will be called prism54. > + When built as module you get prism54.ko NAK this change. johannes --=-tv9P+t3g7Muy8KHLHc/m Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABAgAGBQJKhmrqAAoJEODzc/N7+QmafhgQAI17nxRmHFThE0ajfM/SGrir rWISfI+9Pi/dqtIXdKlR8fsT34mzd8NkJ+9dn9pGNren+r4fUTwhr6SiSRzqmwcg e7qNC6XUSW8Kh3sByc73upexIthLoNnqvuVQVRRvJA3ghNd4KuBklilGqxe7FtL/ igVintQkCrlAiX/d/16ci91QvbC9Po+dWfd/cZ/FM6yeTtTVfqLvKCl86ZVA+w6l dmJtqYznSiWdl1KHOu9FNw7FC2vgKfShrGGqVmK4ZKTHDHSx3+BqYywfC4FukaLc f14nUvTB+hdjr93USlXAqgbF7P4dTMOilVa6pHubur4s6mHbP3INaQoeVGGDX8l/ 1uPSu2KbTY+KI72d0brGKT5bdRdXh8qZxqKRDQekNVDST0AuSx3uqVGF9XYNdMe9 7In56uXHiPPoKXMNN3hGoHjumKTf78E6Cma/PqZ6oDNEF2N7XSAJXkeVbzld8U81 h5fnC0uL6oPQndnZNwipS/5HPxoN3nWc2Chxd8xrJ3/ac6fYfUJ0Tbdl+9wioPMQ lZUqRn4zaWaPr/JjuhUl1L4NvOY4JUsnZ5faDEFj3cJs4fTXPt1tmzrokjRxFxqv nD0bqgUtVZp/aFq79VUYdYRgGKzK83TZPDPL1+asOic21awmWhZQtK9kxAX8PTC1 8JSpL19aZsThN+YHRU+C =Vze7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-tv9P+t3g7Muy8KHLHc/m--