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Subject[14/14] Orinoco driver updates - update version and changelog
Previous patches have brought the in-kernel orinoco driver roughly to
parity with version 0.14alpha2 from out-of-tree. Update the version
number and changelog accordingly.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Index: working-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
===================================================================
--- working-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c 2005-02-24 14:50:59.879047056 +1100
+++ working-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c 2005-02-24 14:51:02.388665536 +1100
@@ -393,6 +393,29 @@
* in the rx_dropped statistics.
* o Provided a module parameter to suppress linkstatus messages.
*
+ * v0.13e -> v0.14alpha1 - 30 Sep 2003 - David Gibson
+ * o Replaced priv->connected logic with netif_carrier_on/off()
+ * calls.
+ * o Remove has_ibss_any and never set the CREATEIBSS RID when
+ * the ESSID is empty. Too many firmwares break if we do.
+ * o 2.6 merges: Replace pdev->slot_name with pci_name(), remove
+ * __devinitdata from PCI ID tables, use free_netdev().
+ * o Enabled shared-key authentication for Agere firmware (from
+ * Robert J. Moore <Robert.J.Moore AT allanbank.com>
+ * o Move netif_wake_queue() (back) to the Tx completion from the
+ * ALLOC event. This seems to prevent/mitigate the rolling
+ * error -110 problems at least on some Intersil firmwares.
+ * Theoretically reduces performance, but I can't measure it.
+ * Patch from Andrew Tridgell <tridge AT samba.org>
+ *
+ * v0.14alpha1 -> v0.14alpha2 - 20 Oct 2003 - David Gibson
+ * o Correctly turn off shared-key authentication when requested
+ * (bugfix from Robert J. Moore).
+ * o Correct airport sleep interfaces for current 2.6 kernels.
+ * o Add code for key change without disabling/enabling the MAC
+ * port. This is supposed to allow 802.1x to work sanely, but
+ * doesn't seem to yet.
+ *
* TODO
* o New wireless extensions API (patch from Moustafa
* Youssef, updated by Jim Carter and Pavel Roskin).
Index: working-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.h
===================================================================
--- working-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.h 2005-02-24 14:50:59.879047056 +1100
+++ working-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.h 2005-02-24 14:51:02.389665384 +1100
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
#ifndef _ORINOCO_H
#define _ORINOCO_H

-#define DRIVER_VERSION "0.13e"
+#define DRIVER_VERSION "0.14alpha2"

#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
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