linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] wireless: mark prism54 as deprecated and mark for removal

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Date:	Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:06:51 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
CC:	linville@...driver.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	aquilaver@...oo.com, 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>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: mark prism54 as deprecated and mark for removal

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> The preferred modules is p54 which also supports FullMAC

This needs to be "modules are" or "module is". I know p54 is really a
family, but I think you specifically mean p54pci here.

> PCI / Cardbus devices. We schedule removal for 2.6.34. Reason
> to remove this is no one really is testing prism54 anymore,
> and while it works p54 provides support for the same hardware.
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p54pci?

> 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
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receive

> out there please let us know!
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Those words can be removed.

Otherwise, ACK.

Larry

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