On Thursday 27 August 2020 09:49:12 Kalle Valo wrote: > Ondrej Zary <linux@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Monday 17 August 2020 20:27:06 Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > >> On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:27:01 +0300 > >> Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > I was surprised to see that someone was using this driver in 2015, so > >> > I'm not sure anymore what to do. Of course we could still just remove > >> > it and later revert if someone steps up and claims the driver is still > >> > usable. Hmm. Does anyone any users of this driver? > >> > >> What about moving the driver over into staging, which is generally the > >> way I understood to move a driver slowly out of the kernel? > > > > Please don't remove random drivers. > > We don't want to waste time on obsolete drivers and instead prefer to > use our time on more productive tasks. For us wireless maintainers it's > really hard to know if old drivers are still in use or if they are just > broken. > > > I still have the Aironet PCMCIA card and can test the driver. > > Great. Do you know if the airo driver still works with recent kernels? Yes, it does. $ uname -a Linux test 5.7.0-0.bpo.2-686 #1 SMP Debian 5.7.10-1~bpo10+1 (2020-07-30) i686 GNU/Linux # dmesg | grep airo [ 22.002273] airo(): Probing for PCI adapters [ 22.002422] airo(): Finished probing for PCI adapters [ 23.796853] airo(): cmd:111 status:7f11 rsp0:2 rsp1:0 rsp2:0 [ 23.796879] airo(): Doing fast bap_reads [ 24.021208] airo(eth1): Firmware version 5.60.22 [ 24.021238] airo(eth1): WPA supported. [ 24.021251] airo(eth1): MAC enabled xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx [ 24.062695] airo_cs 0.0 eth35: renamed from eth1 [ 50.308100] airo(eth35): Bad MAC enable reason=eaac, rid=e, offset=0 [ 50.332761] airo(eth35): Bad MAC enable reason=eaac, rid=e, offset=0 # wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth35 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf & Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant rfkill: Cannot get wiphy information ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument eth35: Trying to associate with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (SSID='MSI' freq=2462 MHz) Failed to add supported operating classes IE ioctl[SIOCSIWGENIE]: Operation not supported eth35: Association request to the driver failed eth35: Associated with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx eth35: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx completed [id=0 id_str=] # dhclient -d eth35 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.4.1 Copyright 2004-2018 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth35/yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy Sending on LPF/eth35/yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on eth35 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.192 from 192.168.1.254 DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.192 on eth35 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK of 192.168.1.192 from 192.168.1.254 bound to 192.168.1.192 -- renewal in 40 seconds. -- Ondrej Zary
