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 <[email protected]> --- 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2008-12-27 15:06:55.000000000 +0100 @@ -233,13 +233,15 @@ When: January 2009 or Linux 2.7.0, which Why: Superseded by newer revisions or modules Who: Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> --------------------------- 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 <[email protected]> --------------------------- 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. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
