Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

[stefano.brivio@polimi.it]

"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:56:24AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
>
> > > Oh come on. b43 is more than a year old now. How long should we wait?
> > > Two or three? Forever?
> >
> > possibly forever, if you dont get obvious regressions like "my wlan does
> > not work" (reported in this very thread), resolved. Pushing the blame to
> > udev (in a rather unfriendly way) wont give users a working system and
> > wont get you many new testers for the new driver either.
>
> It is true that Michael can be a little unpleasant at times.
> The colloquialism that comes to mind is that he "does not suffer fools
> lightly".  Hopefully he will take your counseling to heart and learn
> to be a bit more moderate in his tone.  FWIW, he is still young. :-)

No way. He's just inhuman. :P

> That said, it is also true that the b43[legacy] driver[s] do a more
> than adequate job of replacing the old bcm43xx driver provided that
> one (re-)installs the proper firmware.  And I know of no other driver
> that goes to more trouble to tell you how to get the proper firmware
> installed than this one.
>
> The bcm43xx driver will be added to the feature removal schedule
> in 2.6.25.  Proper judgment will be used in deciding the actual date
> of its removal.  In the meantime hopefully every distribution will
> have or obtain a working udev configuration.  If things don't work
> out as planned then we will re-evaluate.
>
> Let's stop this now please.

Agreed. As a b43legacy maintainer, I'd be happy to know if Ingo  
suggests other ways to smooth out the transition. I haven't read  
proposals yet.


--
Ciao
Stefano



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