[arch-dev-public] [signoff] or remove wlan-ng26 from core?

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 12:56:25 EDT 2007


On 10/18/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/10/18, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa at gmx.de>:
> > Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb Thomas Bächler:
> > > Aaron Griffin schrieb:
> > > > This seems weird to me - doesn't wlan-ng support some obscene amount
> > > > of wireless cards?
> > >
> > > No, most of the chipsets that wlan-ng was required for are now supported
> > > by some in-kernel drivers. Only some very obscure usb chipsets still
> > > needed it, and in the past Tom was the only one we could find who had
> > > such a chip.
> > >
> > > At least, that is what tpowa and/or tom explained to me a while ago.
> >
> > Shouldn't we just keep it until it's not compilable anymore or a user says hey
> > it's not working anymore?
> >
>
> I think yes, unless it's PITA to maintain.

I agree. I'll give my "signoff" on this, not saying that it is tested,
but I'm going to claim responsibility if this package is broken.

We may have to just do that for some of these driver oriented things


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