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[0/14] Orinoco driver updates

To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [0/14] Orinoco driver updates
From: David Gibson <hermes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:53:55 +1100
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Jeff, please apply:

Here's a big stack of patches that make a significant step forward on
the long overdue orinoco driver merge.  Still quite a long way to go,
but it's something.  This patch stack is againt Linus' vanilla +
Viro's big iomap cleanup patch, as requested.

The first 9 patches make only trivial or cosmetic behavioural changes:
        1/14            orinoco-carrier 
                Use netif_carrier_*() macros instead of homegrown
                'connected' variable.

        2/14            orinoco-printks 
                Update various printk()s and other cosmetic strings

        3/14            orinoco-delays
                Use mdelay() and ssleep() instead of outdated ways of
                delaying.

        4/14            orinoco-free-orinocodev
                Introduce free_orinocodev() function, to reduce noise
                in future diffs.

        5/14            orinoco-cleanup-hermes
                Assorted cleanups to low-level hardware access code

        6/14            orinoco-pci-updates
                Cleanup to initialization code for the PCI based
                orinoco devices.

        7/14            orinoco-modparm
                Use modern module_parm macros for orinoco module.

        8/14            orinoco-pccard-cleanups
                Cleanup to PCMCIA initialization code

        9/14            orinoco-void-ethersnap
                Trivial change to is_ethersnap() function to reduce
                future diff noise.

The next 4 patches start to intoduce real new functionality and
bug fixes:
        10/14           orinoco-no-ibss-any
                Disallow IBSS mode if no ESSID is set (too many
                firmwares break, otherwise)

        11/14           orinoco-late-tx-wake
                Delay waking the Tx queue, fixes problems on a number
                of firwmares

        12/14           orinoco-wep-updates
                Various updates to WEP setup code

        13/14           orinoco-update-firmware-detection
                Updates and bugfixes to firmware detection logic

And the final one, is another trivial one:
        14/14           orinoco-is-now-0.14alpha2
                Update version and changelog to reflect the above
                patches.

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