updated the webrev
http://cr.illumos.org/~webrev/enrico/illumos-gate-2995/
i've put 0.5.11,5.11-0.151.1.6 in fmri version,
is this correct?
On 07/13/2012 05:02 PM, Albert Lee wrote:
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Enrico <[email protected]> wrote:
created an issue for this case
https://www.illumos.org/issues/2995
webrev:
http://sunkiss.altervista.org/illumos-2995-webrev/
Thanks. A nice side effect is removing instances of the BSD
"advertising clause".
A quick search on OpenGrok shows there are still remaining references
to the drivers in usr/src/uts/common/Makefile.files and
usr/src/uts/common/Makefile.rules. pcan is also used as an example in
usr/src/README.license-files.
Additionally, I believe that without package obsoletions, the drivers
will remain installed/installable after upgrading, as the
incorporation will no longer restrict them, and type=require
dependency they declare on pkg:/system/kernel will be compatible with
newer versions. I would like someone better-versed in pkg(5) to
confirm this. Allowing the drivers to remain installable may not be
desirable if the intent is to remove private interfaces they use in
the near future.
-Albert
On 07/12/2012 04:37 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
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pretty have completely superseded them.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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