Re: [PATCH v3] remove bcm43xx

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Tuesday, 20 of November 2007, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Monday 19 November 2007 23:57:43 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Having both drivers in 2.6.24 should help find out if 
> > > there's anything which should be ironed out with b43/b43legacy, but right
> > > now they are already working a lot better than bcm43xx, and they are more
> > > stable. So I couldn't find a reason why we shouldn't remove bcm43xx in
> > > 2.6.25.
> > 
> > Many people use the old driver and you are forcing them to switch in a rather
> > unfriendly fashion.
> > 
> > Moreover, the switch generally involves a configuration change (on my system
> > eth1 became wlan0) and is not _that_ seamless.
> > 
> > IMvHO, the schedule of the removal of this driver should be discussed on LKML.
> 
> Ok, so we are going to add Rafael J. Wysocki as the bcm43xx maintainer
> and remove everyone else. I'm OK with that.

[That wasn't nice.]

I'm not qualified to maintain that code, sorry.  Apart from this, I've switched
to b43. :-)

> It is known for over a year now that b43 (aka bcm43xx-mac80211) is going to
> replace bcm43xx. And we already do a parrallel release cycle with both drivers
> included so people can switch. What else do you want?

_First_, mark bcm43xx as unmaintained.  Then, it's not your problem any more.
Perhaps there's someone who'd be willing to maintain it.  Otherwise, it will be
dropped anyway after some time - when no one uses it any more.  Still, it need
not be (and IMHO it shouldn't be) your decision to drop it.

Greetings,
Rafael