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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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-14 20:25 [PATCH v4 00/34] wireless: update/re-arrange kconfigs Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 01/34] wireless: move iwmc3200wifi closer to the other intel drivers Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 02/34] wireless: group intel wireless drivers on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 03/34] wireless: move MWL8K right below libertas " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 05/34] wireless: move p54 and prism54 drivers closer " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 06/34] wireless: group Conexant / STEricsson drivers in kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 07/34] wireless: move zd1211rw option closer to old ZyDAS on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 08/34] wireless: group ZyDAS wireless drivers in kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 09/34] wireless: group Realtek wireless on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 10/34] wireless: group Broadcom drivers " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-15 12:09 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-08-15 22:05 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-16 13:15 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-08-17 15:35 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 11/34] wireless: clarify rndis_wlan is not broadcom specific Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 12/34] wireless: group Atmel wireless together on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 13/34] wireless: move AIRO_CS closer to AIRO_CS Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:57 ` Pavel Roskin
2009-08-14 21:02 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 14/34] wireless: group Cisco together on kconfig Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 15/34] wireless: move group drivers together Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 16/34] wireless: organize group drivers alphabetically Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 17/34] wireless: remove IEEE 802.11 description on hostapd Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 18/34] wireless: move mac80211_hwsim to top level wireless driver menu Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 19/34] wireless: organize individual drivers alphabetically Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 20/34] wireless: simplify WLAN_PRE80211 entries Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 21/34] wireless: simplify WLAN_80211 entries Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 22/34] wireless: remove "Wireless" from rndis kconfig entry Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 23/34] wireless: downgrade TI driver from menuconfig to config Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-15 12:13 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-08-15 22:07 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 24/34] wireless: Update TI kconfig description Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 25/34] wireless: make ath consistent with the other groups Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 26/34] wireless: update top level wireless driver entry Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 27/34] wireless: update wireless kconfig description Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 28/34] wireless: update cfg80211 kconfig entry Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 21:13 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 29/34] wireless: update reg debug " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 30/34] wireless: update WIRELESS_EXT " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 21:09 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 31/34] wireless: update mac80211 " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 21:12 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 32/34] wireless: make mac80211 select cfg80211 Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-14 21:06 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-15 12:12 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-08-15 12:15 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-17 17:00 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-17 21:37 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-18 0:35 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-18 7:15 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-14 20:25 ` [PATCH v4 33/34] wireless: remove mac80211 rate selection extra menu Luis R. Rodriguez
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
2009-08-15 0:49 ` [PATCH v4 00/34] wireless: update/re-arrange kconfigs Luis R. Rodriguez
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