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

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:59:42AM -0700, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 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 ;)

Heh I've gone and cleaned this up in the series, I just removed the
.ko usage when I refer to modules in the entries and commit log.

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

Heh ok, changed it.

  Luis
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