Ben Armstrong wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:50:32 +0200
Thiemo Nagel <[email protected]> wrote:
Alan Jenkins wrote:
Are you concerned about the module loading as well, or only "ifconfig
up" as quoted above?
I'm not into the technical details. The argumentation is: "Somebody
put it there, probably there's a reason for it." So if we care about
backward compatibility with mixed systems, we should research when the
quirks became obsolete.
Ah, then don't worry about etch. This probably happened when we relied
on non-free madwifi drivers (which is still the only solution for lenny
users without a kernel backport) and then it was assumed to be needed
for ath5k without testing. So I don't think we need it anymore unless
it can be demonstrated to be needed on lenny with 2.6.26 + madwifi.
That sounds sensible to me.
Kind regards,
Thiemo
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