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

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Date:	Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:59:42 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
Cc:	linville@...driver.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	Larry.Finger@...inger.net, 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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 34/34] wireless: mark prism54.ko as deprecated and
 mark for removal

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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