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| author | Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> | 2008-12-27 18:26:39 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-01-29 15:59:41 -0500 |
| commit | c557289cb8ea063bd09db88f8a687a841556e291 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e77f69574c5c33cb8c5e70b24deb81c8b0eb7fc | |
| parent | 98a8d1a8f22237e2aa7db5453df0f68935a5ede0 (diff) | |
b43: Change schedule for old-fw support removal
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 <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 5ddbe350487a..ac98851f7a0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ Who: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> --------------------------- 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. diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c index c627bac87a40..5ca55dcd0345 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c @@ -1954,8 +1954,9 @@ 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 @@ -2271,8 +2272,11 @@ static int b43_upload_microcode(struct b43_wldev *dev) } 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); } |