Remove legacy drivers from unstable?

[Ben Hutchings]

On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 08:54 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> 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).

I would love to drop these crappy old drivers and don't want to see them
in squeeze.  Unfortunately the bug reports I've seen suggest that the
new drivers don't yet support all hardware as well as the legacy
drivers.

Ben.

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