Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:20:50 -0400 | From | "Michael H. Warfield" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] airo.c code formatting |
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:30:55PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: > I have received word that the Aironet driver in the kernel > is the most up to date.
> The attached patch just corrects a few spelling mistakes and > makes the coding style consistent within the file > drivers/net/wireless/airo.c .
> -- > Thomas Hood > --- linux-2.4.9-ac13-mwave/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c_ORIG Fri Sep 21 15:23:18 2001 > +++ linux-2.4.9-ac13-mwave/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c Mon Sep 24 23:17:54 2001 > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ > /*====================================================================== > > - Aironet driver for 4500 and 4800 series cards > + Driver for Aironet 4500 and 4800 series cards > + and for Cisco Aironet 340 and 350 series cards
Ok... I've been meaning to ask something about this. I've been working with the Aironet cards on some wireless security projects. I had been using a patched version of the aironet driver from the pcmcia project with the 2.2 kernels but recently started looking at the 2.4.x kernels and the drivers included there in.
I'm a bit confused by this:
[mhw@alcove linux]$ find . -name airo\* ./drivers/net/aironet4500.h ./drivers/net/aironet4500_core.c ./drivers/net/pcmcia/aironet4500_cs.c ./drivers/net/aironet4500_card.c ./drivers/net/aironet4500_proc.c ./drivers/net/aironet4500_rid.c ./drivers/net/wireless/airo.c ./drivers/net/wireless/airo_cs.c
I'm guessing that the aironet4500* stuff in the drivers/net directory is for the ISA/PCI cards (which is really a PCMCIA adapter with a card plugged into it) but what's the deal with the one in pcmcia and how do all three sets of these (net, net/wireless, and net/pcmcia) relate to one another? Does the one in net supply the PCMCIA functions and then depend on the one in net/wireless or do either of these interrelate to the net/pcmcia. All claim to be for the 4500 series cards (at least) and I'm using 340/350s. There also seem to be two places to enable this. One is under "Network Device Support" -> "Wireless LAN" and the other under "PCMCIA Network Device Support" "PCMCIA Wireless LAN". But the 4500/4800/340/350 are all PCMCIA cards with a PCMCIA adapter for PCI/ISA support. Is there some redundancy in here or are they all part and parcel of the same thing?
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