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

[Thiemo Nagel]

Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:50:32 +0200
> Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel at ph.tum.de> wrote:
> 
>> Alan Jenkins wrote:
>>> Are you concerned about the module loading as well, or only "ifconfig 
>>> up" as quoted above?
>> I'm not into the technical details.  The argumentation is:  "Somebody 
>> put it there, probably there's a reason for it."  So if we care about 
>> backward compatibility with mixed systems, we should research when the 
>> quirks became obsolete.
> 
> Ah, then don't worry about etch.  This probably happened when we relied
> on non-free madwifi drivers (which is still the only solution for lenny
> users without a kernel backport) and then it was assumed to be needed
> for ath5k without testing.  So I don't think we need it anymore unless
> it can be demonstrated to be needed on lenny with 2.6.26 + madwifi.

That sounds sensible to me.

Kind regards,

Thiemo

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