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