From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, aquilaver@yahoo.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Dan Williams" <dcbw@redhat.com>,
"Kai Engert" <kengert@redhat.com>,
"Jean Tourrilhes" <jt@hpl.hp.com>,
"Tim de Waal" <tim.dewaal@yahoo.com>,
"Roy Marples" <uberlord@gentoo.org>,
"Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Christian Lamparter" <chunkeey@web.de>,
"Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>,
"Tim Gardner" <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 34/34] wireless: mark prism54.ko as deprecated and mark for removal
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:59:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1250323182.15069.0.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250281559-13041-35-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com>
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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
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2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 34/34] wireless: mark prism54.ko as deprecated and mark for removal Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-15 7:59 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2009-08-17 17:06 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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