Commit f4562283 authored Feb 09, 2011 by Christian Lamparter Committed by John W. Linville Feb 21, 2011

ar9170usb: mark the old driver as obsolete



AR9170USB will be replaced by carl9170 in the foreseeable
future [2.6.40].

Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent b67afe7f

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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		@@ -35,6 +35,17 @@ Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>

		---------------------------

		What: AR9170USB
		When: 2.6.40

		Why: This driver is deprecated and the firmware is no longer
		maintained. The replacement driver "carl9170" has been
		around for a while, so the devices are still supported.

		Who: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>

		---------------------------

		What: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
		Check: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
		When: July 2009

MAINTAINERS

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		@@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ ATHEROS AR9170 WIRELESS DRIVER
		M: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
		L: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
		W: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ar9170
		S: Maintained
		S: Obsolete
		F: drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/

		CARL9170 LINUX COMMUNITY WIRELESS DRIVER

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar9170/Kconfig

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		config AR9170_USB
		tristate "Atheros AR9170 802.11n USB support"
		tristate "Atheros AR9170 802.11n USB support (OBSOLETE)"
		depends on USB && MAC80211
		select FW_LOADER
		help
		This driver is going to get replaced by carl9170.

		This is a driver for the Atheros "otus" 802.11n USB devices.

		These devices require additional firmware (2 files).