From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:58138 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753692AbZHQRGt (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:06:49 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.105]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:06:52 -0700 Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:06:44 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Johannes Berg CC: Luis Rodriguez , "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 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 34/34] wireless: mark prism54.ko as deprecated and mark for removal Message-ID: <20090817170644.GE4352@mosca> References: <1250281559-13041-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1250281559-13041-35-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> <1250323182.15069.0.camel@johannes.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <1250323182.15069.0.camel@johannes.local> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:59:42AM -0700, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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 ;) Heh I've gone and cleaned this up in the series, I just removed the .ko usage when I refer to modules in the entries and commit log. > > - The module will be called prism54. > > + When built as module you get prism54.ko > > NAK this change. Heh ok, changed it. Luis