Please pull 'p54' branch of wireless-2.6

Please pull 'p54' branch of wireless-2.6

[John W. Linville]

Jeff & Dave,

This patch adds the p54 driver for prism54 hardware using the "soft
MAC" firmware.  It includes modules for both PCI and USB drivers.

This driver has been in Fedora (both F7 and rawhide) for some time
and has generally performed well.  No doubt there are some problems
with the code, but still I think it would be better to mainline the
driver than to keep it out of stream.

Thanks,

John

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The patch is available here:

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/p54/0001-p54-add-mac80211-based-driver-for-prism54-softmac.patch

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The following changes since commit 0d4cbb5e7f60b2f1a4d8b7f6ea4cc264262c7a01:
  Linus Torvalds (1):
        Linux 2.6.23-rc6

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git p54

Michael Wu (1):
      p54: add mac80211-based driver for prism54 softmac hardware

 MAINTAINERS                      |    8 +
 drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig     |   13 +
 drivers/net/wireless/Makefile    |    4 +
 drivers/net/wireless/net2280.h   |  452 +++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/p54.h       |   80 +++
 drivers/net/wireless/p54common.c |  983 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/p54common.h |  329 +++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/p54pci.c    |  689 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/p54pci.h    |  106 ++++
 drivers/net/wireless/p54usb.c    |  904 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/p54usb.h    |  133 +++++
 11 files changed, 3701 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/net2280.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/p54.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/p54common.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/p54common.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/p54pci.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/p54pci.h
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/p54usb.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/p54usb.h
-- 
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com

Re: Please pull 'p54' branch of wireless-2.6

[David Miller]

From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:55:27 -0400

> This patch adds the p54 driver for prism54 hardware using the "soft
> MAC" firmware.  It includes modules for both PCI and USB drivers.
> 
> This driver has been in Fedora (both F7 and rawhide) for some time
> and has generally performed well.  No doubt there are some problems
> with the code, but still I think it would be better to mainline the
> driver than to keep it out of stream.

Merged to net-2.6.24, thanks John.

Re: Please pull 'p54' branch of wireless-2.6

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:55:27PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
>  drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig     |   13 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/Makefile    |    4 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/net2280.h   |  452 +++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/wireless/p54.h       |   80 +++
>  drivers/net/wireless/p54common.c |  983 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/wireless/p54common.h |  329 +++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/wireless/p54pci.c    |  689 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/wireless/p54pci.h    |  106 ++++
>  drivers/net/wireless/p54usb.c    |  904 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/wireless/p54usb.h    |  133 +++++

PLease put it into a separate subdirectory, thanks.

Also net2280.h seems rather oddly named.

Re: Please pull 'p54' branch of wireless-2.6

[David Miller]

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:04:05 +0100

> PLease put it into a separate subdirectory, thanks.
> 
> Also net2280.h seems rather oddly named.

The next time I rebase I'll try to take care of this for both
this driver and the iwlwifi stuff.

Re: Please pull 'p54' branch of wireless-2.6

[John W. Linville]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:12:00PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:04:05 +0100
> 
> > PLease put it into a separate subdirectory, thanks.
> > 
> > Also net2280.h seems rather oddly named.
> 
> The next time I rebase I'll try to take care of this for both
> this driver and the iwlwifi stuff.

Fine by me, although I swear I remember complaints about adding separate
directories for drivers...*shrug*...

John
-- 
John W. Linville
linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org

Re: Please pull 'p54' branch of wireless-2.6

[Jeff Garzik]

John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:12:00PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>
>> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:04:05 +0100
>>
>>> PLease put it into a separate subdirectory, thanks.
>>>
>>> Also net2280.h seems rather oddly named.
>> The next time I rebase I'll try to take care of this for both
>> this driver and the iwlwifi stuff.
> 
> Fine by me, although I swear I remember complaints about adding separate
> directories for drivers...*shrug*...

There were complaints about the nonsensical wireless/mac80211 directory. 
  But if there are enough files, a driver should definitely get its own 
directory.  Like life, it's a balance.  If it's just one or two C files, 
a directory might be overkill.  If it's more, it definitely warrants a 
sub-dir.

	Jeff

Re: Please pull 'p54' branch of wireless-2.6

[David Miller]

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff-o2qLIJkoznsdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:01:32 -0400

> There were complaints about the nonsensical wireless/mac80211
> directory.  But if there are enough files, a driver should
> definitely get its own directory.  Like life, it's a balance.  If
> it's just one or two C files, a directory might be overkill.  If
> it's more, it definitely warrants a sub-dir.

That's generally how I see things too.