Re: [PATCH v4 34/34] wireless: mark prism54.ko as deprecated andmark for removal

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Sat Aug 15 2009 - 04:00:13 EST


On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 16:25 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> The preferred modules is p54.ko, which also supports FullMAC
> PCI / Cardbus devices. We schedule removal for 2.6.34. Reason
> to remove this is no one really is testing prism54.ko anymore,
> and while it works p54.ko provides support for the same hardware.
> It should be noted I have been told some FullMAC devices may not
> have worked with the SoftMAC driver but to date we have yet to
> recieve a single bug report regarding this. If there are users
> out there please let us know!

Not that I care about the changelog, but I do find it illogical to refer
to modules w/o .ko everywhere and then with .ko in the changelog. Of
course you were consistent ;)

> - The module will be called prism54.
> + When built as module you get prism54.ko

NAK this change.

johannes

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