Start dropping PCMCIA from compat-wireless for 2.6.38+

Start dropping PCMCIA from compat-wireless for 2.6.38+

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

I'm going to start dropping PCMCIA stuff from compat-wireless as I
don't think we have any users of it nor interest to keep backporting
it. This entails dropping drivers like orinoco, b43 PCMCIA support,
libertas, as well as bluetooth bluecard_cs, bluecard_cs, dtl1_cs,
bt3c_cs and of course CONFIG_SSB_PCMCIAHOST. If you are a user please
yell now.

 Luis

Re: Start dropping PCMCIA from compat-wireless for 2.6.38+

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm going to start dropping PCMCIA stuff from compat-wireless as I
> don't think we have any users of it nor interest to keep backporting
> it. This entails dropping drivers like orinoco, b43 PCMCIA support,
> libertas, as well as bluetooth bluecard_cs, bluecard_cs, dtl1_cs,
> bt3c_cs and of course CONFIG_SSB_PCMCIAHOST. If you are a user please
> yell now.

Well Haukes just sent me a patch to update some stuff so PCMCIA is
saved until further notice :)

 Luis

Re: Start dropping PCMCIA from compat-wireless for 2.6.38+

[Jesper Juhl]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> I'm going to start dropping PCMCIA stuff from compat-wireless as I
> don't think we have any users of it nor interest to keep backporting
> it. This entails dropping drivers like orinoco, b43 PCMCIA support,
> libertas, as well as bluetooth bluecard_cs, bluecard_cs, dtl1_cs,
> bt3c_cs and of course CONFIG_SSB_PCMCIAHOST. If you are a user please
> yell now.
> 
Yelling.
While I'm not personally a user, my mother is. She still has an old IBM 
Thinkpad 600 laptop with a PCMCIA card in it that uses the orinoco driver.

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Re: Start dropping PCMCIA from compat-wireless for 2.6.38+

[Jesper Juhl]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >
> >> I'm going to start dropping PCMCIA stuff from compat-wireless as I
> >> don't think we have any users of it nor interest to keep backporting
> >> it. This entails dropping drivers like orinoco, b43 PCMCIA support,
> >> libertas, as well as bluetooth bluecard_cs, bluecard_cs, dtl1_cs,
> >> bt3c_cs and of course CONFIG_SSB_PCMCIAHOST. If you are a user please
> >> yell now.
> >>
> > Yelling.
> > While I'm not personally a user, my mother is. She still has an old IBM
> > Thinkpad 600 laptop with a PCMCIA card in it that uses the orinoco driver.
> 
> And you have your mother using compat-wireless?
> 
Yes, as a matter of fact I do.

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Re: Start dropping PCMCIA from compat-wireless for 2.6.38+

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> I'm going to start dropping PCMCIA stuff from compat-wireless as I
>> don't think we have any users of it nor interest to keep backporting
>> it. This entails dropping drivers like orinoco, b43 PCMCIA support,
>> libertas, as well as bluetooth bluecard_cs, bluecard_cs, dtl1_cs,
>> bt3c_cs and of course CONFIG_SSB_PCMCIAHOST. If you are a user please
>> yell now.
>>
> Yelling.
> While I'm not personally a user, my mother is. She still has an old IBM
> Thinkpad 600 laptop with a PCMCIA card in it that uses the orinoco driver.

And you have your mother using compat-wireless?

  Luis

Re: Start dropping PCMCIA from compat-wireless for 2.6.38+

[Holger Schurig]

Please, if the burden is not too much, keep it for the benefit of 
embedded people.

If you have some embedded device (e.g. ARM based), it's usually not so 
easy to hieve this device to newest 2.6.3[5-7] kernel. However, it's 
easy to use your adapted kernel, and compile compat-wireless against it.

I'm in such a situation with libertas_cs.

Greetings,
Holger

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Re: Start dropping PCMCIA from compat-wireless for 2.6.38+

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Holger Schurig
<holgerschurig@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please, if the burden is not too much, keep it for the benefit of
> embedded people.
>
> If you have some embedded device (e.g. ARM based), it's usually not so
> easy to hieve this device to newest 2.6.3[5-7] kernel. However, it's
> easy to use your adapted kernel, and compile compat-wireless against it.
>
> I'm in such a situation with libertas_cs.

You use libertas_cs on an embedded device with compat-wireless, OK,
thanks for the feedback. If you can help with patches when PCMCIA crap
is advanced that would help too.

  Luis

Re: Start dropping PCMCIA from compat-wireless for 2.6.38+

[Holger Schurig]

> You use libertas_cs on an embedded device with compat-wireless, OK,
> thanks for the feedback. If you can help with patches when PCMCIA crap
> is advanced that would help too.

The problem is that I work on this in an on-off way. If a customer 
notices some heavy bug with the current kernel on our devices, I'll do 
the upgrade dance. As long as everything works, I'm lazy --- or busy 
doing other things.

And I'm looking for a new job anyway :-)

Greetings,
Holger

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