Remove legacy drivers from unstable?

[Sven Joachim]

Hi,

The rt2x00 project has decided to retire the legacy drivers¹, arguing
that the new drivers have been in the kernel for long enough and
distributions have switched to them.  Therefore I think it doesn't make
much sense for Debian to keep the old drivers which have already
bit-rotten (e.g., rt73-source does not build against 2.6.27 or newer²).

Personally, I switched from rt73 to rt73usb in 2.6.26, and I have not
regretted it.  Bug #518244 persuaded me to finally ditch rt73-common and
rt73-source for good.

Regards,
        Sven


¹ http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=0&t=5237&sid=fd140ccc2153803dc21b64986ad90b56
² https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rt73/+bug/300018