Arnd Bergmann writes:
> From: Arnd Bergmann
>
> As discussed previously, a lot of the older wifi drivers are likely
> entirely unused, Though we can't know for sure.
>
> As suggested by both Greg and Jakub, let's remove the ones that look
> are most likely to have no users left and also get in
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes:
> There is some non-x86 hardware like the Amiga that still uses
> PCMCIA-style networking cards on machines like the A600 and A1200. So,
> unless these drivers are actually causing problems, I would rather not
> see them go yet.
There is a cost maintaining
Philipp Hortmann writes:
> On 10/26/23 00:27, Witold Baryluk wrote:
>> I might be interested in modernizing the driver, but I have no idea
>> how much effort it would be (in terms of changed fraction of code).
>> 20k LOC is neither small or big, and not obvious (a lot of it would
>> be
Witold Baryluk writes:
>> From: Arnd Bergmann
>>
>> These two drivers were used for the earliest "Centrino" branded Intel
>> laptops during the late 32-bit Pentium-M era, roughly 2003 to 2005, which
>> probably makes it the most modern platform that still uses the wireless
>> extension
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann writes:
> On 2023-10-23, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> From: Arnd Bergmann
>>
>> These two drivers were used for the earliest "Centrino" branded Intel
>> laptops during the late 32-bit Pentium-M era, roughly 2003 to 2005, which
>> probably makes it the most modern platform
"Arnd Bergmann" writes:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2023, at 15:45, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Arnd Bergmann writes:
>>
>>> From: Arnd Bergmann
>>>
>>> As discussed previously, a lot of the older wifi drivers are likely
>>> entirely unused, Tho
Arnd Bergmann writes:
> From: Arnd Bergmann
>
> These two drivers were used for the earliest "Centrino" branded Intel
> laptops during the late 32-bit Pentium-M era, roughly 2003 to 2005, which
> probably makes it the most modern platform that still uses the wireless
> extension interface
Arnd Bergmann writes:
> From: Arnd Bergmann
>
> HostAP is an ISA/PCMCIA style 802.11b driver supporting only
> wireless extensions, and some custom ioctls (already removed).
> Some devices include a legacy PCI bridge but no DMA.
>
> The driver was marked obsolete in 2016 and is highly unlikely
Arnd Bergmann writes:
> From: Arnd Bergmann
>
> As discussed previously, a lot of the older wifi drivers are likely
> entirely unused, Though we can't know for sure.
>
> As suggested by both Greg and Jakub, let's remove the ones that look
> are most likely to have no users left and also get in
et/xilinx/ll_temac_main.c | 9 -
> drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c | 11 +++
> drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/spi.c| 3 +--
> net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c | 4 ++--
> 17 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
For
David Hildenbrand writes:
>>> +Use WARN_ON_ONCE() rather than WARN() or WARN_ON()
>>> +**
>>> +
>>> +WARN_ON_ONCE() is generally preferred over WARN() or WARN_ON(), because it
>>> +is common for a given warning condition, if it occurs at all, to
David Hildenbrand writes:
> Linus notes [1] that the introduction of new code that uses VM_BUG_ON()
> is just as bad as BUG_ON(), because it will crash the kernel on
> distributions that enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM (like Fedora):
>
> VM_BUG_ON() has the exact same semantics as BUG_ON. It is
Christophe Leroy wrote:
> powerpc's asm/prom.h brings some headers that it doesn't
> need itself.
>
> In order to clean it up, first add missing headers in
> users of asm/prom.h
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy
Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.
3223e922ccf8 orinoco: Prepare
Christophe Leroy writes:
> powerpc's asm/prom.h brings some headers that it doesn't
> need itself.
>
> In order to clean it up, first add missing headers in
> users of asm/prom.h
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/intersil/orinoco/airport.c | 1 +
> 1 file
Benjamin Stürz wrote:
> This replaces comments with C99's designated
> initializers because the kernel supports them now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Stürz
The title prefix should be "ray_cs: ".
Patch set to Changes Requested.
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Benjamin Stürz writes:
> On 28.03.22 11:33, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Benjamin Stürz writes:
>>
>>> This patch series replaces comments with C99's designated initializers
>>> in a few places. It also adds some enum initializers. This is my first
>>> time c
Benjamin Stürz writes:
> This patch series replaces comments with C99's designated initializers
> in a few places. It also adds some enum initializers. This is my first
> time contributing to the Linux kernel, therefore I'm probably doing a
> lot of things the wrong way. I'm sorry for that.
Larry Finger writes:
> On 3/26/22 11:59, Benjamin Stürz wrote:
>> This replaces comments with C99's designated
>> initializers because the kernel supports them now.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Stürz
>> ---
>> drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/coex.c | 40 +++
>> 1 file
|6 -
> arch/sparc/kernel/pci_msi.c |4 -
> arch/x86/kernel/apic/msi.c|2
> arch/x86/pci/xen.c|6 -
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/pci.c |2
For ath11k:
Acked-by: Kalle Valo
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https:/
the
> driver name by dev_driver_string() which implicitly makes use of struct
> pci_dev::dev->driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/ppc-pci.h | 9 -
> drivers/bcma/host_pci.c | 7 ---
F
gt; open coded wait/poll to regular completion interfaces.
>
> This changes the wait to exclusive wait mode. But that does not make any
> difference because the wakers use complete_all() which ignores the
> exclusive mode.
>
> Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
> Signed-off-by: Thomas
i and linux-usb addresses:
"linux-...@vger.kernel.org Felipe Balbi" ,
"linux-...@vger.kernel.org Kalle Valo" ,
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https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> The ioreadX() helpers have inconsistent interface. On some architectures
> void *__iomem address argument is a pointer to const, on some not.
>
> Implementations of ioreadX() do not modify the memory under the address
> so they can be converted to a "const" version
"const" version for const-safety and
> consistency among architectures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ahb.c | 10 +-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
No need to have "net: wireless: "
rtl8180.h | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
No need to have "net: wireless: " in the title, this is enough.
rtl818x: Constify ioreadX() iomem argument (as in generic implementation)
I assume someone else will take this so here's my ack:
Acked-by: Kalle
ch
Applied manually:
209b43759d65 ssb: Remove SSB_WARN_ON, SSB_BUG_ON and SSB_DEBUG
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Kalle Valo
mer.h)
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org> # for m68k parts
[...]
> drivers/net/wireless/atmel/at76c50x-usb.c | 2 +-
For wireless:
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kv...@codeaurora.org>
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