Lauri Kasanen <cand@xxxxxxx> writes: > The previous text was confusing, leading readers to think this > driver was a duplicate, and so didn't need to be enabled. > > After the removal of the older staging driver, this is the only > driver in mainline for these devices. > > Signed-off-by: Lauri Kasanen <cand@xxxxxxx> > --- > v2: Remove the mention of the previous driver, suggested by Christian. > > drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig | 8 +++----- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig > index 1a796e5..2e34bae 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/carl9170/Kconfig > @@ -5,12 +5,10 @@ config CARL9170 > select FW_LOADER > select CRC32 > help > - This is another driver for the Atheros "otus" 802.11n USB devices. > + This is the mainline driver for the Atheros "otus" 802.11n USB devices. > > - This driver provides more features than the original, > - but it needs a special firmware (carl9170-1.fw) to do that. > - > - The firmware can be downloaded from our wiki here: > + It needs a special firmware (carl9170-1.fw), which can be downloaded > + from our wiki here: > <http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170> Why even mention anything about a "special firmware" as the firmware is already available from linux-firmware.git? That's default location for all firmware images and I think most, if not all, distros should have it available. So wouldn't it be better not to mention anything about firmware at all? -- Kalle Valo -- 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
