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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>
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Michael Buesch 2008-12-27 18:26:39 +01:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 98a8d1a8f2
commit c557289cb8
2 changed files with 10 additions and 4 deletions
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Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ Who: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
--------------------------- ---------------------------
What: b43 support for firmware revision < 410 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 Why: The support code for the old firmware hurts code readability/maintainability
and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware
are not provided by Broadcom anymore. are not provided by Broadcom anymore.

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drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
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@ -1954,8 +1954,9 @@ static void b43_print_fw_helptext(struct b43_wl *wl, bool error)
const char *text; const char *text;
text = "You must go to " text = "You must go to "
"http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware " "http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware "
"and download the latest firmware (version 4).\n"; "and download the correct firmware for this driver version. "
"Please carefully read all instructions on this website.\n";
if (error) if (error)
b43err(wl, text); b43err(wl, text);
else else
@ -2271,8 +2272,11 @@ static int b43_upload_microcode(struct b43_wldev *dev)
} }
if (b43_is_old_txhdr_format(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. " 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); b43_print_fw_helptext(dev->wl, 0);
} }