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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>2009-09-08 12:09:47 -0700
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2009-09-09 11:25:25 -0400
commit4d8cd26849737e141ff0aa23fedacef4ea76ea4f (patch)
tree512569e8e2b618f0901f8a825bff547d4b78f855 /drivers
parent98a1e2a9260d30ad691fbd1ed778a05e38fe655b (diff)
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: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig57
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
index a8871a84d87..ad89d23968d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -275,51 +275,26 @@ config PCMCIA_WL3501
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.
-
- 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.
+ 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
+
+ When built as module you get the module prism54
config USB_ZD1201
tristate "USB ZD1201 based Wireless device support"