arlan: move driver to staging

Move the arlan driver to drivers/staging. This is another pre-802.11 driver that has seen virtually no non-API-fixup activity in years, and for which no active hardware is likely to still exist. This driver represents unnecessary ongoing maintenance for no clear benefit. This patch brought to you by the "hacking" session at the 2009 Kernel Summit in Tokyo, Japan... Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
git-mirror · Oct 30, 2009 · e38879e · e38879e
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
@@ -25,22 +25,6 @@ menuconfig WLAN_PRE80211
 	  This option does not affect the kernel build, it only
 	  lets you choose drivers.
 
-config ARLAN
-	tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support"
-	depends on ISA && !64BIT && WLAN_PRE80211
-	select WIRELESS_EXT
-	---help---
-	  Aironet makes Arlan, a class of wireless LAN adapters. These use the
-	  www.Telxon.com chip, which is also used on several similar cards.
-	  This driver is tested on the 655 and IC2200 series cards. Look at
-	  <http://www.ylenurme.ee/~elmer/655/> for the latest information.
-
-	  The driver is built as two modules, arlan and arlan-proc. The latter
-	  is the /proc interface and is not needed most of time.
-
-	  On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some
-	  time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it.
-
 config WAVELAN
 	tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support"
 	depends on ISA && WLAN_PRE80211

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/Makefile b/drivers/net/wireless/Makefile
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_IPW2100) += ipw2x00/
 obj-$(CONFIG_IPW2200) += ipw2x00/
 
-obj-$(CONFIG_ARLAN) += arlan.o 
-
-arlan-objs := arlan-main.o arlan-proc.o
-
 # Obsolete cards
 obj-$(CONFIG_WAVELAN)		+= wavelan.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA_NETWAVE)	+= netwave_cs.o

diff --git a/drivers/staging/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/Kconfig
@@ -133,5 +133,7 @@ source "drivers/staging/cowloop/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/staging/strip/Kconfig"
 
+source "drivers/staging/arlan/Kconfig"
+
 endif # !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD
 endif # STAGING
diff --git a/drivers/staging/Makefile b/drivers/staging/Makefile
@@ -48,3 +48,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_DX_SEP)		+= sep/
 obj-$(CONFIG_IIO)		+= iio/
 obj-$(CONFIG_COWLOOP)		+= cowloop/
 obj-$(CONFIG_STRIP)		+= strip/
+obj-$(CONFIG_ARLAN)		+= arlan/
diff --git a/drivers/staging/arlan/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/arlan/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+config ARLAN
+	tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support"
+	depends on ISA && !64BIT
+	select WIRELESS_EXT
+	---help---
+	  Aironet makes Arlan, a class of wireless LAN adapters. These use the
+	  www.Telxon.com chip, which is also used on several similar cards.
+	  This driver is tested on the 655 and IC2200 series cards. Look at
+	  <http://www.ylenurme.ee/~elmer/655/> for the latest information.
+
+	  The driver is built as two modules, arlan and arlan-proc. The latter
+	  is the /proc interface and is not needed most of time.
+
+	  On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some
+	  time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it.
diff --git a/drivers/staging/arlan/Makefile b/drivers/staging/arlan/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+obj-$(CONFIG_ARLAN) += arlan.o 
+
+arlan-objs := arlan-main.o arlan-proc.o
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/arlan-main.c → drivers/staging/arlan/arlan-main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/arlan-main.c → drivers/staging/arlan/arlan-main.c
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/arlan-proc.c → drivers/staging/arlan/arlan-proc.c b/drivers/net/wireless/arlan-proc.c → drivers/staging/arlan/arlan-proc.c
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/arlan.h → drivers/staging/arlan/arlan.h b/drivers/net/wireless/arlan.h → drivers/staging/arlan/arlan.h
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		obj-$(CONFIG_ARLAN) += arlan.o

		arlan-objs := arlan-main.o arlan-proc.o