On 5/3/10, rain_maker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <rain_maker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The drivers rt2500usb and rt73usb both contain the usb id 148f:2573 while > only > the latter is suitable for devices with that id. > > As a consequence, both drivers will be loaded and system log shows messages > like "rt2500usb_init_eeprom: Error - Invalid RT chipset detected". > > If you use the above search term, you will find more than 1500 hits with a > well known search engine, confirming that rt2500usb is always the wrong > driver for devices with usb id 148f:2573 and quite often as a side effect > confusion arose about this -non fatal but misleading- error message in the > respective bug reports or threads. > > This trivial patch removes the id 148f:2573 from rt2500usb driver. > > Signed-off-by: Axel Koellhofer <rain_maker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> NACK The ID is confusing indeed, but unfortunately we can't remove this ID, since in the early days people did report they had to use the rt2500usb driver for these devices. So the majority of devices with this ID is indeed rt73usb, but not for all. Ivo -- 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
