[Debian-eeepc-devel] [RFC] wireless.sh: remove special treatment for Atheros

Ben Armstrong synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca
Wed Aug 12 15:42:05 UTC 2009


On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:52:40 +0200
Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel at ph.tum.de> wrote:
> If we remove this, we'll probably break things for some etch users who 
> run eeepc-acpi-scripts from unstable.  Therefore I'd suggest to add 
> logic to detect the kernel version and only remove the special treatment 
> for kernels >= 2.6.30.  Yes, that'll add more cruft, but otherwise we 
> might ruin the experience for people running mixed systems.

That may be, but we never supported etch and always recommended lenny,
even before it was released.  I wouldn't go to herculean efforts to
support it without a specific request from an etch user, and even then
I would like to hear their justification for not running lenny.

Ben
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