On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 04:17:51PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > Since v2.6.14, Prism 2/2.5/3 devices are better supported using the HostAP > driver, which was made to work with these exclusively. > Having the same IDs supported by orinoco too confuses users who have both > drivers compiled in or as modules who expect hostap to drive the device. > > Telling users to echo to /sys/bus/pci/drivers/*/unbind and bind is not > exactly user-friendly. > > Create an option to disable support for Prism devices in orinoco driver which > disabled the IDs for the PCMCIA module and creates a Kconfig dependency for > the Prism PCI modules. I very much dislike this being a compile time only CONFIG option. A module parameter which enables or disables the device IDs would be much nicer, if possible. It can default to off (orinoco will not claim Prism cards). -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
