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

[Thiemo Nagel]

Ben Armstrong wrote:
> 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.

Substitute etch by lenny (my fault), and the argumentation still holds. 
  There will be plenty of lenny users running eeepc-acpi-scripts from 
unstable.  (I'm one of them.)

Kind regards,

Thiemo

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