Removal request: madwifi, madwifi-tools

[Kel Modderman]

On Saturday 27 September 2008 08:13:15 Julien BLACHE wrote:
> Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > * we must trust a binary HAL that was only announced to the public on the
> >   16th of September 2008 by Scott Raynel, who announced it because Felix
> >   couldn't really be bothered.
> 
> For your information, Atheros have just released their HAL under the
> ISC license, as announced in <20080926215701.GC5972 at tesla> on the
> lkml.

Yeah, and a lot of stuff is happening off the public lists too, which brought
me here to declare Madwifi unfit for a long term release, as I believe the
driver is on the brink of being abandoned upstream.

Haven't heard from a Release Manger so far about that issue.

> 
> Another one bites the dust, it's good to see Atheros has finally got
> the memo about Open Source after so many years.

I think they will bring more goodies to the party soon too.

> 
> I think there's pretty much only nVidia left at that point...

Yep.

Kel.