Bug#411791: RFH: rt2400 -- RT2400 wireless network drivers

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2008-08-01 18:40 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:

> It appears this driver has been merged into the standard Linux kernel:
>
> jmm@galadriel:~$ dpkg -L linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 | grep wireless | grep rt2
> /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00
> /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2400pci.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500pci.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00lib.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko
> /lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.ko

This is actually a different driver, see the rt2400-source package
description.

> Wouldn't it make sense to remove the rt2400 source package in that case?

I don't know how well the rt2x00 drivers work.  They are still listed as
experimental, see drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig in the Linux
kernel tree.  IMHO it makes sense to keep the legacy drivers for Lenny.

Sven