linux-kernel - Re: Start dropping PCMCIA from compat-wireless for 2.6.38+

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1012092329480.25880@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Date:	Thu, 9 Dec 2010 23:31:09 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
cc:	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-bluetooth <linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Start dropping PCMCIA from compat-wireless for 2.6.38+

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> I'm going to start dropping PCMCIA stuff from compat-wireless as I
> don't think we have any users of it nor interest to keep backporting
> it. This entails dropping drivers like orinoco, b43 PCMCIA support,
> libertas, as well as bluetooth bluecard_cs, bluecard_cs, dtl1_cs,
> bt3c_cs and of course CONFIG_SSB_PCMCIAHOST. If you are a user please
> yell now.
> 
Yelling.
While I'm not personally a user, my mother is. She still has an old IBM 
Thinkpad 600 laptop with a PCMCIA card in it that uses the orinoco driver.

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