From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:26:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:26:36 -0400 Received: from alcove.wittsend.com ([130.205.0.10]:21396 "EHLO alcove.wittsend.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:26:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:20:50 -0400 From: "Michael H. Warfield" To: Thomas Hood Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] airo.c code formatting Message-ID: <20010925162050.A32335@alcove.wittsend.com> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Hood , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3BAFFA6F.8D9DC309@yahoo.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BAFFA6F.8D9DC309@yahoo.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? Mike -- Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | mhw@WittsEnd.com (The Mad Wizard) | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!