Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 02:22:37 +0300
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] strip: remove dead URL
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On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:16:05AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 01:10 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > http://mosquitonet.Stanford.EDU/strip.html no longer exists.
> 
> Out of curiosity, does anybody even have this hardware? Does it even
> exist still? I mean, cell-phone sized 100kbit/sec wireless hardware? Who
> would use that? :)

And don't forget that this "about the size and weight of a cellular 
telephone" was written back in 1996...

I was very near at suggesting removal of this driver, but at least
five years ago someone tried to use it (without success). [1]

But if the general opinion is it should be removed I'd be glad to send
a patch.

> johannes

cu
Adrian

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/2/26/177

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