On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Enrico <[email protected]> wrote: > created an issue for this case > https://www.illumos.org/issues/2995 > > webrev: > http://sunkiss.altervista.org/illumos-2995-webrev/ > >
Thanks. A nice side effect is removing instances of the BSD "advertising clause". A quick search on OpenGrok shows there are still remaining references to the drivers in usr/src/uts/common/Makefile.files and usr/src/uts/common/Makefile.rules. pcan is also used as an example in usr/src/README.license-files. Additionally, I believe that without package obsoletions, the drivers will remain installed/installable after upgrading, as the incorporation will no longer restrict them, and type=require dependency they declare on pkg:/system/kernel will be compatible with newer versions. I would like someone better-versed in pkg(5) to confirm this. Allowing the drivers to remain installable may not be desirable if the intent is to remove private interfaces they use in the near future. -Albert > On 07/12/2012 04:37 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> >> >> On Jul 12, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Albert Lee wrote: >>> >>> >>> I also have some of these devices (and briefly used pcwl on my old >>> laptop), but I doubt there is a use case for them from going forward. >>> The devices were wildly popular 10 years ago, but for the mobile >>> platforms, that's an eternity. If there are still PCMCIA based systems >>> somewhere, supported PC Cards that are capable of 802.11g should >>> pretty have completely superseded them. >> >> >> Yep. Furthermore, the legacy drivers don't support WPA at all. Which >> makes >> them nearly completely useless in today's networks. >> >> I'd had a plan to nuke pretty much all the PCMCIA stuff (not card bus!) >> from >> illumos for a while now. Its a really old bus that nobody uses anymore. >> These >> drivers were some of the last that people used. (The others being the old >> CompactFlash adapters, but these days people use USB or Cardbus based >> adapters >> with CF.) The motivation for nuking PCMCIA, apart from general cleanup, >> is that >> PCMCIA bus interfaces are unlike other busses, and also wind up forcing us >> to >> carry other legacy crap in our core kernel. So this cleanup enables still >> other >> cleanup, which can then allow other optimizations or future changes to >> nexus >> frameworks to be made more easily in the future. >> >> - Garrett >> >> >> *illumos-discuss* | Archives >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175548-9b54c406> | >> Modify >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> >> Your Subscription [Powered by Listbox] <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175801-e6d8763a > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
