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@@ -6,6 +6,35 @@ be removed from this file.
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9What: PRISM54
10When: 2.6.34
11
12Why: prism54 FullMAC PCI / Cardbus devices used to be supported only by the
13 prism54 wireless driver. After Intersil stopped selling these
14 devices in preference for the newer more flexible SoftMAC devices
15 a SoftMAC device driver was required and prism54 did not support
16 them. The p54pci driver now exists and has been present in the kernel for
17 a while. This driver supports both SoftMAC devices and FullMAC devices.
18 The main difference between these devices was the amount of memory which
19 could be used for the firmware. The SoftMAC devices support a smaller
20 amount of memory. Because of this the SoftMAC firmware fits into FullMAC
21 devices's memory. p54pci supports not only PCI / Cardbus but also USB
22 and SPI. Since p54pci supports all devices prism54 supports
23 you will have a conflict. I'm not quite sure how distributions are
24 handling this conflict right now. prism54 was kept around due to
25 claims users may experience issues when using the SoftMAC driver.
26 Time has passed users have not reported issues. If you use prism54
27 and for whatever reason you cannot use p54pci please let us know!
28 E-mail us at: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
29
30 For more information see the p54 wiki page:
31
32 http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54
33
34Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
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9What: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM 38What: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
10Check: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM 39Check: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
11When: July 2009 40When: July 2009
@@ -433,3 +462,13 @@ Why: Remove the old legacy 32bit machine check code. This has been
433 but the old version has been kept around for easier testing. Note this 462 but the old version has been kept around for easier testing. Note this
434 doesn't impact the old P5 and WinChip machine check handlers. 463 doesn't impact the old P5 and WinChip machine check handlers.
435Who: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> 464Who: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
465
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467
468What: lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* will not be
469 exported interface anymore.
470When: 2.6.33
471Why: cpu_policy_rwsem has a new cleaner definition making it local to
472 cpufreq core and contained inside cpufreq.c. Other dependent
473 drivers should not use it in order to safely avoid lockdep issues.
474Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>