Commit 4d8cd268 authored by Luis R. Rodriguez's avatar Luis R. Rodriguez Committed by John W. Linville
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wireless: mark prism54 as deprecated and mark for removal 



The preferred module is p54pci which also supports FullMAC
PCI / Cardbus devices. We schedule removal for 2.6.34. Reason
to remove this is no one really is testing prism54 anymore,
and while it works p54pci provides support for the same hardware.
It should be noted I have been told some FullMAC devices may not
have worked with the SoftMAC driver but to date we have yet to
recieve a single bug report regarding this. If there are users
out there please let us know!

Cc: aquilaver@yahoo.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Kai Engert <kengert@redhat.com>
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Tim de Waal<tim.dewaal@yahoo.com>
Cc: Roy Marples <uberlord@gentoo.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Cc: Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 98a1e2a9

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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What:	PRISM54

When:	2.6.34



Why:	prism54 FullMAC PCI / Cardbus devices used to be supported only by the

	prism54 wireless driver. After Intersil stopped selling these

	devices in preference for the newer more flexible SoftMAC devices

	a SoftMAC device driver was required and prism54 did not support

	them. The p54pci driver now exists and has been present in the kernel for

	a while. This driver supports both SoftMAC devices and FullMAC devices.

	The main difference between these devices was the amount of memory which

	could be used for the firmware. The SoftMAC devices support a smaller

	amount of memory. Because of this the SoftMAC firmware fits into FullMAC

	devices's memory. p54pci supports not only PCI / Cardbus but also USB

	and SPI. Since p54pci supports all devices prism54 supports

	you will have a conflict. I'm not quite sure how distributions are

	handling this conflict right now. prism54 was kept around due to

	claims users may experience issues when using the SoftMAC driver.

	Time has passed users have not reported issues. If you use prism54

	and for whatever reason you cannot use p54pci please let us know!

	E-mail us at: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org



	For more information see the p54 wiki page:



	http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54



Who:	Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>



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What:	IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM

Check:	IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM

When:	July 2009

drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

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	 micro support for ethtool.



config PRISM54

	tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus' 

	tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus (DEPRECATED)'

	depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL && WLAN_80211

	select WIRELESS_EXT

	select FW_LOADER

	---help---

	  Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:



	  ISL3880 - Prism GT            802.11 b/g

	  ISL3877 - Prism Indigo        802.11 a

	  ISL3890 - Prism Duette        802.11 a/b/g

	  

	  For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.

	  Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:



	  3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1)

	  Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card

	  Compex WL54G Cardbus Card

	  Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card

	  D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650

	  I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card

	  Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card

	  Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card

	  Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card

	  Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card

	  Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card

	  Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card

	  SMC2802W -    EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card

	  SMC2835W -    EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card

	  SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card

	  Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card

	  Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card



	  If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well.

	  You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890.

	  You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page:

	  <http://prism54.org>

	  You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from

	  a current hotplug package.

	  This enables support for FullMAC PCI/Cardbus prism54 devices. This

	  driver is now deprecated in favor for the SoftMAC driver, p54pci.

	  p54pci supports FullMAC PCI/Cardbus devices as well. For details on

	  the scheduled removal of this driver on the kernel see the feature

	  removal schedule:



	  Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt



	  For more information refer to the p54 wiki:



	  http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54



	  Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards



	  If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be

	  inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),

	  say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>.

	  The module will be called prism54.

	  When built as module you get the module prism54



config USB_ZD1201

	tristate "USB ZD1201 based Wireless device support"

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