linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 34/34] wireless: mark prism54.ko as deprecated and mark for removal

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:06:44 -0700
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
CC:	Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@...eros.com>,
	"linville@...driver.com" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Larry.Finger@...inger.net" <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	"aquilaver@...oo.com" <aquilaver@...oo.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>,
	Kai Engert <kengert@...hat.com>,
	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com>,
	Tim de Waal <tim.dewaal@...oo.com>,
	Roy Marples <uberlord@...too.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@....de>,
	Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@....de>,
	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 34/34] wireless: mark prism54.ko as deprecated and
 mark for removal

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
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/