On Jul 12, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Albert Lee wrote:
>
> I also have some of these devices (and briefly used pcwl on my old
> laptop), but I doubt there is a use case for them from going forward.
> The devices were wildly popular 10 years ago, but for the mobile
> platforms, that's an eternity. If there are still PCMCIA based systems
> somewhere, supported PC Cards that are capable of 802.11g should
> pretty have completely superseded them.
Yep. Furthermore, the legacy drivers don't support WPA at all. Which makes
them nearly completely useless in today's networks.
I'd had a plan to nuke pretty much all the PCMCIA stuff (not card bus!) from
illumos for a while now. Its a really old bus that nobody uses anymore. These
drivers were some of the last that people used. (The others being the old
CompactFlash adapters, but these days people use USB or Cardbus based adapters
with CF.) The motivation for nuking PCMCIA, apart from general cleanup, is
that PCMCIA bus interfaces are unlike other busses, and also wind up forcing us
to carry other legacy crap in our core kernel. So this cleanup enables still
other cleanup, which can then allow other optimizations or future changes to
nexus frameworks to be made more easily in the future.
- Garrett
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