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

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

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?

  Luis
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