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

[Ben Armstrong]

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.

Ben
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