Changes in Kconfig

bec95598 - wifi: remove orphaned rndis_wlan driver

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:19:51 +0000

wifi: remove orphaned rndis_wlan driverWireless RNDIS USB is a new-style CFG80211 driver for 802.11b and802.11g USB hardware from around 2004 to 2006. This makes it more modernthan any of the others, but Kalle already classified it as "legacy"in commit 298e50ad8eb8f ("wifi: move raycs, wl3501 and rndis_wlan tolegacy directory").Jussi Kivilinna worked on this driver between 2008 and 2012, and it hasonly seen cosmetic updates after that.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

6853c70b - wifi: remove orphaned cisco/aironet driver

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:19:45 +0000

wifi: remove orphaned cisco/aironet driverCisco Aironet is an 802.11b PCMCIA and mini-PCI with limited supportfor Cardbus DMA and for CFG80211.Both PCMCIA and WEXT are deprecated, and there is little chancethat anyone is still using this driver, so remove it.Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

298e50ad - wifi: move raycs, wl3501 and rndis_wlan to legacy directory

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:17:32 +0000

wifi: move raycs, wl3501 and rndis_wlan to legacy directoryTo clean up drivers/net/wireless move the old drivers drivers left in thedirectory to a new "legacy" directory. I did consider addingCONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_LEGACY like other vendors have but then dropped the idea asthese are really old drivers and hopefully we get to remove them soon.There should be no changes in compilation or in Kconfig options, merely moving files.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230227121732.8967-3-kvalo@kernel.org List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

f79cbc77 - wifi: move mac80211_hwsim and virt_wifi to virtual directory

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:17:31 +0000

wifi: move mac80211_hwsim and virt_wifi to virtual directoryTo clean up drivers/net/wireless move the virtual drivers to a new virtualdirectory. I did consider adding CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_VIRTUAL like other vendorshave but then dropped the idea as we are not real drivers.There should be no changes in compilation or in Kconfig options, merely movingfiles. The order in menuconfig is slightly changed, the virtual drivers are nowlast in the list.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230227121732.8967-2-kvalo@kernel.org List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

68d57a07 - wireless: add plfxlc driver for pureLiFi X, XL, XC devices

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:20:07 +0000

wireless: add plfxlc driver for pureLiFi X, XL, XC devicesThis is a driver for pureLiFi X, XL, XC devices which use light to transmitdata, so they are not compatible with normal Wi-Fi devices. The driver usesseparate NL80211_BAND_LC band to distinguish from Wi-Fi. The driver is basedon 802.11 softMAC Architecture and uses native 802.11 for configuration andmanagement. Station and Ad-Hoc modes are supported.The driver is compiled and tested in ARM, x86 architectures and compiled inpowerpc architecture. This driver implementation has been based on the zd1211rwdriver.Signed-off-by: Srinivasan Raju Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220224182042.132466-3-srini.raju@purelifi.com List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

4a5fb1bb - wfx: get out from the staging area

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 09:21:42 +0000

wfx: get out from the staging areaThe wfx driver is now mature enough to leave the staging area.Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

326a10b9 - wireless: remove CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 09:57:40 +0000

wireless: remove CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDSWDS has long been superseded by 4-addr AP/client and lacks suchfundamental features like encryption, capability negotiation,and similar. As such, it was basically always unusable as is.Back in 2016, in commit 8f20542386c5 ("wireless: deprecate WDSand disable by default") I disabled it and made the Kconfig optiononly available under CONFIG_EXPERT to turn it back on. Since then,nobody has complained about that, and given the severe limitationswith the code, it's unlikely anyone would have a reason to.Remove the Kconfig option now, so we can clean up the associatedcode in follow-up patches.Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201109105103.7d1e44c50e21.I2c0a1705fd6491d9ba3400c88415ee2c4832ae98@changeidAcked-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

0ef2c2d1 - wireless: fix wiki website url in main Kconfig

Fri, 05 Jun 2020 15:41:05 +0000

wireless: fix wiki website url in main KconfigThe wiki url is still the old "wireless.kernel.org"instead of the new "wireless.wiki.kernel.org"Signed-off-by: Flavio Suligoi Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200605154112.16277-3-f.suligoi@asem.it List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

5c3b5da4 - docs: networking: move ray_cs to the hw driver section

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:27:27 +0000

docs: networking: move ray_cs to the hw driver sectionMove ray_cs into Wi-Fi driver docs subdirectory.Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

5625f965 - wilc1000: move wilc driver out of staging

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 12:37:23 +0000

wilc1000: move wilc driver out of stagingWILC1000 is an IEEE 802.11 b/g/n IoT link controller module. TheWILC1000 connects to Microchip AVR/SMART MCUs, SMART MPUs, and otherprocessors with minimal resource requirements with a simpleSPI/SDIO-to-Wi-Fi interface.WILC1000 driver has been part of staging for few years. Withcontributions from the community, it has improved significantly. Fulldriver review has helped in achieving the current state.The details for those reviews are captured in 1 & 2.[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/1537957525-11467-1-git-send-email-ajay.kathat@microchip.com/[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/1562896697-8002-1-git-send-email-ajay.kathat@microchip.com/Signed-off-by: Ajay Singh Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

a7f7f624 - treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:50:22 +0000

treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been graduallydecreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,I also fixed the indentation.There are a variety of indentation styles found. a) 4 spaces + '---help---' b) 7 spaces + '---help---' c) 8 spaces + '---help---' d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---' e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation) f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---' g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran thefollowing commend: $ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

8c6e1720 - docs: networking: convert ray_cs.txt to ReST

Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:04:18 +0000

docs: networking: convert ray_cs.txt to ReST- add SPDX header;- use copyright symbol;- add a document title;- mark code blocks and literals as such;- mark tables as such;- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines where needed;- add to networking/index.rst.Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: David S. Miller List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

ec8f24b7 - treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig

Sun, 19 May 2019 12:07:45 +0000

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/KconfigAdd SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which: - Have no license information of any formThese files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDXlicense identifier is: GPL-2.0-onlySigned-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

c7cdba31 - mac80211-next: rtnetlink wifi simulation device

Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:14:49 +0000

mac80211-next: rtnetlink wifi simulation deviceThis device takes over an existing network device and produces anew one that appears like a wireless connection, returning enough cannedresponses to nl80211 to satisfy a standard connection manager. Ifnecessary, it can also be set up one step removed from an existingnetwork device, such as through a vlan/80211Q or macvlan connection tonot disrupt the existing network interface.To use it to wrap a bare ethernet connection:ip link add link eth0 name wlan0 type virt_wifiYou may have to rename or otherwise hide the eth0 from your connectionmanager, as the original network link will become unusuable and onlythe wireless wrapper will be functional. This can also be combined withvlan or macvlan links on top of eth0 to share the network betweendistinct links, but that requires support outside the machine foraccepting vlan-tagged packets or packets from multiple MAC addresses.This is being used for Google's Remote Android Virtual Device project,which runs Android devices in virtual machines. The standard networkinterfaces provided inside the virtual machines are all ethernet.However, Android is not interested in ethernet devices and would ratherconnect to a wireless interface. This patch allows the virtual machineguest to treat one of its network connections as wireless rather thanethernet, satisfying Android's network connection requirements.We believe this is a generally useful driver for simulating wirelessnetwork connections in other environments where a wireless connection isdesired by some userspace process but is not available.This is distinct from other testing efforts such as mac80211_hwsim bybeing a cfg80211 device instead of mac80211 device, allowing straightpass-through on the data plane instead of forcing packaging of ethernetdata into mac80211 frames.Signed-off-by: A. Cody Schuffelen Acked-by: Alistair Strachan Acked-by: Greg Hartman Acked-by: Tristan Muntsinger [make it a tristate]Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

98f44cb0 - qtnfmac: introduce new FullMAC driver for Quantenna chipsets

Thu, 11 May 2017 21:51:01 +0000

qtnfmac: introduce new FullMAC driver for Quantenna chipsetsThis patch adds support for new FullMAC WiFi driver for QuantennaQSR10G chipsets.QSR10G (aka Pearl) is Quantenna's 8x8, 160M, 11ac offering.QSR10G supports 2 simultaneous WMACs - one 5G and one 2G.5G WMAC supports 160M, 8x8 configuration. FW supportsup to 8 concurrent virtual interfaces on each WMAC.Patch introduces 2 new drivers:- qtnfmac.ko for interfacing with kernel wireless core- qtnfmac_pearl_pcie.ko for interfacing with hardware over PCIe interfaceSigned-off-by: Dmitrii Lebed Signed-off-by: Sergei Maksimenko Signed-off-by: Sergey Matyukevich Signed-off-by: Bindu Therthala Signed-off-by: Huizhao Wang Signed-off-by: Kamlesh Rath Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil Signed-off-by: Igor Mitsyanko Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

8f205423 - wireless: deprecate WDS and disable by default

Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:28:57 +0000

wireless: deprecate WDS and disable by defaultThe old WDS 4-addr frame support is very limited, e.g. * no encryption is possible on such links * it cannot support rate/HT/VHT negotiation * management APIs are very restrictedThese make the WDS legacy mode useless in practice.All of these are resolved by the 4-addr AP/client support,so there's also no reason to improve WDS in the future.Therefore, add a Kconfig option to disable legacy WDS.This gives people an "emergency valve" while they migrateto the better-supported 4-addr AP/client option; we planto remove it (and the associated cfg80211/mac80211 code,which is the ultimate goal) in the future.Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

6d808eba - mac80211_hwsim: move Kconfig entry for sorting alphabetically

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:45:54 +0000

mac80211_hwsim: move Kconfig entry for sorting alphabeticallymac80211_hwsim was not placed alphabetically correctly in menuconfig, fix that.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

b5c9b4f9 - ath: unify Kconfig with other vendors

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:38:32 +0000

ath: unify Kconfig with other vendorsChange menuconfig to config to keep the Kconfig entries unified. Part ofreorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

bd842171 - ti: unify Kconfig with other vendors

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:27:43 +0000

ti: unify Kconfig with other vendorsRename WL_TI to WLAN_VENDOR_TI to match with other vendor configs and make surethat it's enabled by default in new configs. Convert menuconfigs to regularconfigs to unify the wireless drivers menuconfig. Part of reorganising wirelessdrivers directory and Kconfig.Also remove WLCORE dependency to WL_TI. It should not be needed as WLCORE isalready under if WLAN_VENDOR_TI.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

7b09ed5a - mediatek: unify Kconfig with other vendors

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:23:52 +0000

mediatek: unify Kconfig with other vendorsPart of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig