Re: schedule bcm43xx removal for 2.6.26 -- Re: [PATCH v3] remove bcm43xx

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 14:59:27 John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:26:48AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 20 of November 2007, Michael Buesch wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> It is probably true that we haven't communicated this very well
> outside the wireless team.  We probably should have added bcm43xx to
> the feature removal schedule before the 2.6.24 merge window closed.
> 
> How about if we mark bcm43xx as "Obsolete" in MAINTAINERS and add
> an entry to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt with a "When"
> of 2.6.26?  I think that should give everyone sufficient notice...?

So, is SoftMAC already scheduled?
Otherwise, I think when we are about to remove bcm43xx in 2.6.25 someone
is going to complain that removal of softmac was not scheduled...

Btw: Does someone actually read that feature-removal-schedule.txt file?

-- 
Greetings Michael.