On Monday, 19 of November 2007, Stefano Brivio wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:00:11 +0100 > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Well, are you 100% sure that everyone interested knows that this drivers > > is going out in 2.6.25 and no one will object? > > The maintainers know. I mean the users. > Having both drivers in 2.6.24 should help find out if > there's anything which should be ironed out with b43/b43legacy, but right > now they are already working a lot better than bcm43xx, and they are more > stable. So I couldn't find a reason why we shouldn't remove bcm43xx in > 2.6.25. Many people use the old driver and you are forcing them to switch in a rather unfriendly fashion. Moreover, the switch generally involves a configuration change (on my system eth1 became wlan0) and is not _that_ seamless. IMvHO, the schedule of the removal of this driver should be discussed on LKML. Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
