On Wednesday, 21 of November 2007, John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:26:48AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Tuesday, 20 of November 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > > It is known for over a year now that b43 (aka bcm43xx-mac80211) is going to > > > replace bcm43xx. And we already do a parrallel release cycle with both drivers > > > included so people can switch. What else do you want? > > > > _First_, mark bcm43xx as unmaintained. Then, it's not your problem any more. > > Perhaps there's someone who'd be willing to maintain it. Otherwise, it will be > > dropped anyway after some time - when no one uses it any more. Still, it need > > not be (and IMHO it shouldn't be) your decision to drop it. > > It is probably true that we haven't communicated this very well > outside the wireless team. We probably should have added bcm43xx to > the feature removal schedule before the 2.6.24 merge window closed. > > How about if we mark bcm43xx as "Obsolete" in MAINTAINERS and add > an entry to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt with a "When" > of 2.6.26? This is a very good idea IMO. > I think that should give everyone sufficient notice...? Please also state very clearly in the changelog that you'd like to drop the driver entirely before 2.6.26. Thanks, 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
