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authorPavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>2006-04-07 04:11:00 -0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2006-04-24 16:15:52 -0400
commitdc3437d205dcd1a195ebf795f1c54ceb638337fb (patch)
tree0537c6ad05795a090a908d10e418f213817a4ee1 /drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c
parentb884c872fa1917614b42a39020ffcca7fa9302b1 (diff)
[PATCH] orinoco: further comment cleanup in the PCI drivers
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c42
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c
index c00388ec946..7b940509638 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
* Driver for Prism II devices which would usually be driven by orinoco_cs,
* but are connected to the PCI bus by a PLX9052.
*
- * Current maintainers (as of 29 September 2003) are:
+ * Current maintainers are:
* Pavel Roskin <proski AT gnu.org>
* and David Gibson <hermes AT gibson.dropbear.id.au>
*
@@ -30,38 +30,18 @@
* other provisions required by the GPL. If you do not delete the
* provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file
* under either the MPL or the GPL.
-
- * Caution: this is experimental and probably buggy. For success and
- * failure reports for different cards and adaptors, see
- * orinoco_plx_id_table near the end of the file. If you have a
- * card we don't have the PCI id for, and looks like it should work,
- * drop me mail with the id and "it works"/"it doesn't work".
- *
- * Note: if everything gets detected fine but it doesn't actually send
- * or receive packets, your first port of call should probably be to
- * try newer firmware in the card. Especially if you're doing Ad-Hoc
- * modes.
- *
- * The actual driving is done by orinoco.c, this is just resource
- * allocation stuff. The explanation below is courtesy of Ryan Niemi
- * on the linux-wlan-ng list at
- * http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/dev/linux-wlan/2001-q1/0026.html
*
- * The PLX9052-based cards (WL11000 and several others) are a
- * different beast than the usual PCMCIA-based PRISM2 configuration
- * expected by wlan-ng. Here's the general details on how the WL11000
- * PCI adapter works:
+ * Here's the general details on how the PLX9052 adapter works:
*
* - Two PCI I/O address spaces, one 0x80 long which contains the
* PLX9052 registers, and one that's 0x40 long mapped to the PCMCIA
* slot I/O address space.
*
- * - One PCI memory address space, mapped to the PCMCIA memory space
+ * - One PCI memory address space, mapped to the PCMCIA attribute space
* (containing the CIS).
*
- * After identifying the I/O and memory space, you can read through
- * the memory space to confirm the CIS's device ID or manufacturer ID
- * to make sure it's the expected card. qKeep in mind that the PCMCIA
+ * Using the later, you can read through the CIS data to make sure the
+ * card is compatible with the driver. Keep in mind that the PCMCIA
* spec specifies the CIS as the lower 8 bits of each word read from
* the CIS, so to read the bytes of the CIS, read every other byte
* (0,2,4,...). Passing that test, you need to enable the I/O address
@@ -71,7 +51,7 @@
* within the PCI memory space. Write 0x41 to the COR register to
* enable I/O mode and to select level triggered interrupts. To
* confirm you actually succeeded, read the COR register back and make
- * sure it actually got set to 0x41, incase you have an unexpected
+ * sure it actually got set to 0x41, in case you have an unexpected
* card inserted.
*
* Following that, you can treat the second PCI I/O address space (the
@@ -101,16 +81,6 @@
* that, I've hot-swapped a number of times during debugging and
* driver development for various reasons (stuck WAIT# line after the
* radio card's firmware locks up).
- *
- * Hope this is enough info for someone to add PLX9052 support to the
- * wlan-ng card. In the case of the WL11000, the PCI ID's are
- * 0x1639/0x0200, with matching subsystem ID's. Other PLX9052-based
- * manufacturers other than Eumitcom (or on cards other than the
- * WL11000) may have different PCI ID's.
- *
- * If anyone needs any more specific info, let me know. I haven't had
- * time to implement support myself yet, and with the way things are
- * going, might not have time for a while..
*/
#define DRIVER_NAME "orinoco_plx"