On Jul 13, 2012, at 9:41 AM, Albert Lee wrote:
> On second thought, I'm not sure. It may need a fixed version.
> Embedding knowledge of the current OI build version is probably not
> the right thing to do though.
Its needs to use $(PKGVERS). For sure.
- Garrett
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Albert Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Enrico <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> I think it should still use $(PKGVERS) as with everything else.
>>
>> -Albert
>>
>>>
>>> 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 pretty have completely superseded them.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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