kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig, branch v6.19.11

wifi: remove orphaned rndis_wlan driver

2023-10-30T17:30:33+00:00

Wireless RNDIS USB is a new-style CFG80211 driver for 802.11b and 802.11g USB hardware from around 2004 to 2006. This makes it more modern than any of the others, but Kalle already classified it as "legacy" in commit 298e50ad8eb8f ("wifi: move raycs, wl3501 and rndis_wlan to legacy directory"). Jussi Kivilinna worked on this driver between 2008 and 2012, and it has only seen cosmetic updates after that. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo

wifi: remove orphaned cisco/aironet driver

2023-10-30T17:29:47+00:00

Cisco Aironet is an 802.11b PCMCIA and mini-PCI with limited support for Cardbus DMA and for CFG80211. Both PCMCIA and WEXT are deprecated, and there is little chance that anyone is still using this driver, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo

wifi: move raycs, wl3501 and rndis_wlan to legacy directory

2023-03-13T13:42:14+00:00

To clean up drivers/net/wireless move the old drivers drivers left in the directory to a new "legacy" directory. I did consider adding CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_LEGACY like other vendors have but then dropped the idea as these 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

wifi: move mac80211_hwsim and virt_wifi to virtual directory

2023-03-13T13:42:14+00:00

To clean up drivers/net/wireless move the virtual drivers to a new virtual directory. I did consider adding CONFIG_WLAN_VENDOR_VIRTUAL like other vendors have but then dropped the idea as we are not real drivers. There should be no changes in compilation or in Kconfig options, merely moving files. The order in menuconfig is slightly changed, the virtual drivers are now last in the list. Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230227121732.8967-2-kvalo@kernel.org

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

2022-04-25T12:30:42+00:00

This is a driver for pureLiFi X, XL, XC devices which use light to transmit data, so they are not compatible with normal Wi-Fi devices. The driver uses separate NL80211_BAND_LC band to distinguish from Wi-Fi. The driver is based on 802.11 softMAC Architecture and uses native 802.11 for configuration and management. Station and Ad-Hoc modes are supported. The driver is compiled and tested in ARM, x86 architectures and compiled in powerpc architecture. This driver implementation has been based on the zd1211rw driver. Signed-off-by: Srinivasan Raju Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220224182042.132466-3-srini.raju@purelifi.com

wfx: get out from the staging area

2022-04-06T06:52:14+00:00

The wfx driver is now mature enough to leave the staging area. Signed-off-by: Jérôme Pouiller Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo

wireless: remove CONFIG_WIRELESS_WDS

2020-11-10T08:39:08+00:00

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

Merge tag 'wireless-drivers-next-2020-07-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers-next

2020-07-21T00:52:50+00:00

Kalle Valo says: ==================== wireless-drivers-next patches for v5.9 First set of patches for v5.9. This comes later than usual as I was offline for two weeks. The biggest change here is moving Microchip wilc1000 driver from staging. There was an immutable topic branch with one commit moving the whole driver and the topic branch was pulled both to staging-next and wireless-drivers-next. At the moment the only reported conflict is in MAINTAINERS file, so I'm hoping the move should go smoothly. Other notable changes are ath11k getting 6 GHz band support and rtw88 supporting RTL8821CE. And there's also the usual fixes, API changes and cleanups all over. Major changes: wilc1000 * move from drivers/staging to drivers/net/wireless/microchip ath11k * add 6G band support * add spectral scan support iwlwifi * make FW reconfiguration quieter by not using warn level rtw88 * add support for RTL8821CE ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

wireless: fix wiki website url in main Kconfig

2020-07-15T10:18:39+00:00

The 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

docs: networking: move ray_cs to the hw driver section

2020-06-26T23:08:44+00:00

Move ray_cs into Wi-Fi driver docs subdirectory. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller