Removal request: madwifi, madwifi-tools

[Kel Modderman]

On Tuesday 16 September 2008 20:01:38 Riku Voipio wrote:
> 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.

I have recently left my home country and am on a 2 year Visa, and am therefore
without any of my hardware collection or Atheros wireless equipment for quite
some time to come. So my contribution to improve support for these devices in
Debian is limited.

Having said that, the following bundle of 12 patches really seem to improve (in
terms of hardware support and performance) the ath5k version in mainline 2.6.26:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mickflemm/patch-series-8.tar.bz2

Could the kernel team please consider lining them up in the features patch
series.

Thanks, Kel.