rtl8187: Remove module warning and dependence on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
authorLarry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:30:41 +0000 (12:30 -0600)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:41:33 +0000 (16:41 -0500)
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@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c

index 84b49c83ae67cb455be68732157165fa3b7c23fb..7ea916b257e49ad9b03bc5609d57af4881a1b320 100644 (file)
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ 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 876d4f93d31009bb90ba00a46b0dc8416c87fb09..180bc50db3292e3f1e1094b4760b6dfea36aa0a8 100644 (file)
@@ -1409,9 +1409,7 @@ static int __devinit rtl8187_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
        }
 
        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;