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Commit 003faaa1 authored by John W. Linville's avatar John W. Linville Committed by David S. Miller
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bcm43xx: mark as obsolete and schedule for removal 



Schedule bcm43xx for for removal in the 2.6.26 development window.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 88fecd09

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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Who:	Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>



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What:	bcm43xx wireless network driver

When:	2.6.26

Files:	drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx

Why:	This driver's functionality has been replaced by the

	mac80211-based b43 and b43legacy drivers.

Who:	John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>



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MAINTAINERS

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M:	stefano.brivio@polimi.it

L:	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org

W:	http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/

S:	Maintained

S:	Obsolete



BEFS FILE SYSTEM

P:	Sergey S. Kostyliov

drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/Kconfig

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config BCM43XX

	tristate "Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support"

	tristate "Broadcom BCM43xx wireless support (DEPRECATED)"

	depends on PCI && IEEE80211 && IEEE80211_SOFTMAC && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL

	select WIRELESS_EXT

	select FW_LOADER

	select HW_RANDOM

	---help---

	  This is an experimental driver for the Broadcom 43xx wireless chip,

	  found in the Apple Airport Extreme and various other devices.

	  This is an experimental driver for the Broadcom 43xx wireless

	  chip, found in the Apple Airport Extreme and various other

	  devices.  This driver is deprecated and will be removed

	  from the kernel in the near future.  It has been replaced

	  by the b43 and b43legacy drivers.



config BCM43XX_DEBUG

	bool "Broadcom BCM43xx debugging (RECOMMENDED)"