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PATCH New Jeff Garzik 1 participant 1 message Feb 19, 2003

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PATCH 1/1 net driver changes

Summary:
Mostly removing aironet4500 driver, and moving drivers to drivers/net/wireless directory.

Has approval of: aironet4500 maintainer, wireless maintainer, and me :)

Linus, please do a

bk pull bk://kernel.bkbits.net/jgarzik/net-drivers-2.5

This will update the following files:

 drivers/net/aironet4500.h            | 1607 -----------------
 drivers/net/aironet4500_card.c       | 1019 -----------
 drivers/net/aironet4500_core.c       | 3234 -----------------------------------
 drivers/net/aironet4500_proc.c       |  719 -------
 drivers/net/aironet4500_rid.c        | 2205 -----------------------
 drivers/net/arlan-proc.c             | 1274 -------------
 drivers/net/arlan.c                  | 2077 ----------------------
 drivers/net/arlan.h                  |  577 ------
 drivers/net/pcmcia/ray_cs.c          | 3012 --------------------------------
 drivers/net/pcmcia/ray_cs.h          |   78 
 drivers/net/pcmcia/rayctl.h          |  732 -------
 drivers/net/strip.c                  | 2877 -------------------------------
 Documentation/networking/8139too.txt |    2 
 drivers/net/Kconfig                  |  168 -
 drivers/net/Makefile                 |    7 
 drivers/net/pcmcia/Kconfig           |   28 
 drivers/net/pcmcia/Makefile          |    1 
 drivers/net/setup.c                  |   21 
 drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig         |   97 +
 drivers/net/wireless/Makefile        |    7 
 drivers/net/wireless/airo.c          |    4 
 drivers/net/wireless/arlan-proc.c    | 1274 +++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/arlan.c         | 2077 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/arlan.h         |  577 ++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.c        | 3012 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/ray_cs.h        |   78 
 drivers/net/wireless/rayctl.h        |  732 +++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/strip.c         | 2877 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 28 files changed, 10737 insertions(+), 19636 deletions(-)

through these ChangeSets:

<[email protected]> (03/02/18 1.1055)
Move the old wireless drivers into drivers/net/wireless:
arlan, ray_cs, and strip.

Contributed by Randy Dunlap.

<[email protected]> (03/02/17 1.1054)
[wireless airo] call pci_enable_device, pci_set_master as needed

<[email protected]> (03/02/17 1.1053)
[netdrvr] Remove superceded wireless driver aironet4500

From the maintainer, Elmer Joandi(sp?):
aironet4500 is superseded by cisco340 drivers (airo.c) by Ben Reed
and the only strenght of my driver is that it allows to access absolutely all registers on card. Which is useful for developers only. Besides there is no normal interface to configure crypto in my driver, as the general interface is not userfriendly at all. So in fact, I use Bens driver for my ISP bussiness in general cases and my driver for troubleshooting.

<[email protected]> (03/02/17 1.1035.1.1)
[netdrvr 8139too] add to the list of supported boards