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

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

> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> And you have your mother using compat-wireless?
> 
Yes, as a matter of fact I do.

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