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Commit c557289c authored by Michael Buesch's avatar Michael Buesch Committed by John W. Linville
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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: default avatarMichael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 98a8d1a8

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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@@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ Who: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> 
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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

	and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware

	are not provided by Broadcom anymore.

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;



	text = "You must go to "

	       "http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware "

	       "and download the latest firmware (version 4).\n";

	       "http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware "

	       "and download the correct firmware for this driver version. "

	       "Please carefully read all instructions on this website.\n";

	if (error)

		b43err(wl, text);

	else
@@ -2271,8 +2272,11 @@ static int b43_upload_microcode(struct b43_wldev *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. "

			"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);

	}