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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex
    On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:56:24AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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    > * 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. :-)

    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.

    John
    --
    John W. Linville
    linville@tuxdriver.com


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