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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:05:41
Message-Id: 458DA7AC.5020802@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites for net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200 by Daniel Drake
1 Daniel Drake wrote:
2 > Rémi Cardona wrote:
3 >> On second thoughts, I'll raise a small objection to the removal.
4 >> Latest gentoo version is 1.2.0 while the kernel
5 >> (gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r2) says to contain 1.1.4. I know that
6 >> difference isn't exactly huge, but still, it's a step backwards.
7 >
8 > The only changes from 1.1.4 to 1.2.0 which aren't related to the
9 > out-of-kernel build system are very small, will only affect a very small
10 > number of users (i.e. people who do wireless development) and are merged
11 > for 2.6.20. I don't think you will see any behavioural difference at all
12 > between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0 and I don't think this is a showstopper to removal.
13
14 Raymond's comment helped me migrate to the inkernel version and it works
15 as you and phreak's predicted it would.
16
17 I remove all my prior objections to the removal. :)
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19 Rémi
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