netdev - RE: [RFC] iwmc3200top: remove driver for unavailable hardware

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:21:34 +0000
From:	"Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@...el.com>
To:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	"Ortiz, Samuel" <samuel.ortiz@...el.com>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC] iwmc3200top: remove driver for unavailable hardware

Hi  John

> From: John W. Linville [mailto:linville@...driver.com]
> Subject: [RFC] iwmc3200top: remove driver for unavailable hardware
> 
> From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
> 
> This hardware never became available to normal humans.  Leaving this
> driver imposes unwelcome maintenance costs for no clear benefit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
> ---
> Can't remove this just yet, as it is selected by the i2400m wimax
> driver.  The 3200 bits of that driver seem a bit intertwined with the
> rest of the driver.
> 
> Are there any other SDIO parts for i2400m?  Does anyone have any other
> guidance on how I can safely make i2400m be independent of iwmc3200
> support?

It should be pretty straight forward: remove the dependency. In fact, you
are very right--all the sdio code should be removed, as there are no SDIO
parts in the market, to the best of my knowledge.

Yank anything hitting a grep on sdio in i2400m/ (*sdio*) and the Makefile
entries, as well as the Kconfig. That should take care of it.

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