After considerable testing, the initial fears that the driver might damage
some flavors of RTL8187B hardware seem to be groundless. Accordingly, the
logged warning is removed. In addition, Kconfig is changed to remove the
dependence on EXPERIMENTAL.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger>
Acked-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ config RTL8180
config RTL8187
tristate "Realtek 8187 and 8187B USB support"
- depends on MAC80211 && USB && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
+ depends on MAC80211 && USB && WLAN_80211
select EEPROM_93CX6
---help---
This is a driver for RTL8187 and RTL8187B based cards.
Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
@@ -1407,9 +1407,7 @@ static int __devinit rtl8187_probe(struc
}
if (priv->is_rtl8187b) {
- printk(KERN_WARNING "rtl8187: 8187B chip detected. Support "
- "is EXPERIMENTAL, and could damage your\n"
- " hardware, use at your own risk\n");
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "rtl8187: 8187B chip detected.\n");
dev->flags |= IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_DBM;
} else {
dev->flags |= IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC;
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