The scheduled date for the removal of old fw support was in July 2008.
However, we're not going to remove the support unless it causes a major
headache. So change the schedule from "July 2008" to "when it causes headaches".
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Please queue for 2.6.29
Index: wireless-testing/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing.orig/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2008-12-05 17:54:27.000000000 +0100
+++ wireless-testing/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt 2008-12-27 15:06:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -233,13 +233,15 @@ When: January 2009 or Linux 2.7.0, which
Why: Superseded by newer revisions or modules
Who: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---------------------------
What: b43 support for firmware revision < 410
-When: July 2008
+When: The schedule was July 2008, but it was decided that we are going to keep the
+ code as long as there are no major maintanance headaches.
+ So it _could_ be removed _any_ time now, if it conflicts with something new.
Why: The support code for the old firmware hurts code readability/maintainability
and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware
are not provided by Broadcom anymore.
Who: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>
---------------------------
Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2008-12-27 15:01:47.000000000 +0100
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2008-12-27 15:10:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -1949,14 +1949,15 @@ static void b43_release_firmware(struct
static void b43_print_fw_helptext(struct b43_wl *wl, bool error)
{
const char *text;
text = "You must go to "
- "http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware "
- "and download the latest firmware (version 4).\n";
+ "http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware "
+ "and download the correct firmware for this driver version. "
+ "Please carefully read all instructions on this website.\n";
if (error)
b43err(wl, text);
else
b43warn(wl, text);
}
@@ -2266,14 +2267,17 @@ static int b43_upload_microcode(struct b
"Hardware accelerated cryptography is disabled.\n");
b43_print_fw_helptext(dev->wl, 0);
}
}
if (b43_is_old_txhdr_format(dev)) {
+ /* We're over the deadline, but we keep support for old fw
+ * until it turns out to be in major conflict with something new. */
b43warn(dev->wl, "You are using an old firmware image. "
- "Support for old firmware will be removed in July 2008.\n");
+ "Support for old firmware will be removed soon "
+ "(official deadline was July 2008).\n");
b43_print_fw_helptext(dev->wl, 0);
}
return 0;
error:
--
Greetings, Michael.
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