Changes in Makefile

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/Makefile

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/Makefile

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/Makefile

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/Makefile

8762246c - wireless: Fix Makefile to be in alphabetical order

Fri, 13 May 2022 18:42:20 +0000

wireless: Fix Makefile to be in alphabetical orderFix quantenna to be in the right orderSigned-off-by: Srinivasan R Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/MA1PR01MB26992E104B006B340C3C3A84C1CA9@MA1PR01MB2699.INDPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Makefile

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/Makefile

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/Makefile

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/Makefile

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/Makefile

b2441318 - License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:07:57 +0000

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseMany source files in the tree are missing licensing information, whichmakes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.By default all files without license information are under the defaultlicense of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally bindingshorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart andPhilippe Ombredanne.How this work was done:Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset ofthe use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up caseswhere non-standard license headers were used, and references to licensehad to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied toa file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of theoutput of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDXtag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared thebase worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 filesassessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scannerresults in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was notimmediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines).All documentation files were explicitly excluded.The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX licenseidentifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time.In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on thespreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to thesource files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmationby lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base fromFOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scannersdisagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. TheWindriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, sothey are related.Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheetsfor the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in thefiles he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checksin about 15000 files.In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to havecopy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect thecorrect identifier.Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manualinspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patchversion early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correctThis produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. Thisworksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for thedifferent types of files to be modified.These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script toparse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in theformat that the file expected. This script was further refined by Gregbased on the output to detect more types of files automatically and todistinguish between header and source .c files (which need differentcomment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files togenerate the patches.Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Makefile

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/Makefile

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/Makefile

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/Makefile

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/Makefile

33aca94d - rt2x00: move under ralink vendor directory

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:18:44 +0000

rt2x00: move under ralink vendor directoryPart of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Makefile

941a967c - rsi: add vendor Kconfig entry

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:15:33 +0000

rsi: add vendor Kconfig entryPart of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Makefile

62141726 - realtek: create separate Kconfig file

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:09:24 +0000

realtek: create separate Kconfig fileAdd new a Kconfig file and a vendor config for realtek. Also update MAINTAINERSwhich we missed to do when earlier moving rtlwifi.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Makefile

c12edfe2 - prism54: move under intersil vendor directory

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 07:56:45 +0000

prism54: move under intersil vendor directoryPart of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Makefile

2be45b66 - orinoco: move under intersil vendor directory

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 07:57:18 +0000

orinoco: move under intersil vendor directoryPart of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Makefile

d3466830 - p54: move under intersil vendor directory

Wed, 18 Nov 2015 07:49:59 +0000

p54: move under intersil vendor directoryPart of reorganising wireless drivers directory and Kconfig.Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo List of files: /linux-6.15/drivers/net/wireless/Makefile