Commit 003faaa1 authored Jan 27, 2008 by John W. Linville Committed by David S. Miller Jan 28, 2008

bcm43xx: mark as obsolete and schedule for removal



Schedule bcm43xx for for removal in the 2.6.26 development window.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 88fecd09

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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		@@ -306,3 +306,12 @@ Why: These drivers are superseded by i810fb, intelfb and savagefb.
		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		Why: This driver's functionality has been replaced by the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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		@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ P: Stefano Brivio
		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 It has been replaced
		by the b43 and b43legacy drivers.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)"