Removal request: madwifi, madwifi-tools

[Riku Voipio]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 05:35:35PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> * a free driver (in fact 2, but only one present in Linux 2.6.26) exists
>   and works out of the box -> ath5k

Can you propose a backported ath9k patch to the kernel people?

> * operation modes that may make madwifi more desirable than ath5k are currently
>   broken (#491731)

What's the state of ANI in ath5k? bugs #463729, #493832 seem to come
from the lack of ANI in ath5k.

> * I lack the motivation to improve any of the points listed above, except for
>   the very first one, and I am the primary caretaker of the madwifi Debian
>   package and have always been so

Will you still be around to fix issues in ath5k/ath9k? Both of them
still need some work to be done. But I certainly agree that going for
them is better idea than maintaining a dead-end closed source driver.

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