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

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Message-ID: <20090901161513.GD8261@mosca>
Date:	Tue, 1 Sep 2009 09:15:13 -0700
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
CC:	Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@...eros.com>,
	"linville@...driver.com" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"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>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: mark prism54 as deprecated and mark for
 removal

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:06:51AM -0700, Larry Finger wrote:
> 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.

Will fix.

> > 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.
>                      ===
> p54pci?

That would make it clearer, yes thanks.

> > 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
>   =======
> receive

ack

> > out there please let us know!
>   =========
> 
> Those words can be removed.
> 
> Otherwise, ACK.

Thanks for the review, will resend with the changes.

  Luis
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