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@@ -6,6 +6,35 @@ be removed from this file. | |||
6 | 6 | ||
7 | --------------------------- | 7 | --------------------------- |
8 | 8 | ||
9 | What: PRISM54 | ||
10 | When: 2.6.34 | ||
11 | |||
12 | Why: 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 | |||
34 | Who: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> | ||
35 | |||
36 | --------------------------- | ||
37 | |||
9 | What: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM | 38 | What: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM |
10 | Check: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM | 39 | Check: IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM |
11 | When: July 2009 | 40 | When: 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. |
435 | Who: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> | 464 | Who: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> |
465 | |||
466 | ---------------------------- | ||
467 | |||
468 | What: lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* will not be | ||
469 | exported interface anymore. | ||
470 | When: 2.6.33 | ||
471 | Why: 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. | ||
474 | Who: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> | ||