2014-03-26 20:03:13

by Andrea Merello

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Subject: [PATCH 19/20] rtl8180: enable rtl8187se support

Finally make rtl8187se works (hopefylly).
This patch adds PCI ID for rtl8187, updates copyright notes and
updates MODULE_DESCRIPTION.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c
index 2046fe2..98d8256f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180/dev.c
@@ -1,15 +1,42 @@

-/*
- * Linux device driver for RTL8180 / RTL8185
+/* Linux device driver for RTL8180 / RTL8185 / RTL8187SE
*
* Copyright 2007 Michael Wu <[email protected]>
- * Copyright 2007 Andrea Merello <[email protected]>
+ * Copyright 2007,2014 Andrea Merello <[email protected]>
*
* Based on the r8180 driver, which is:
* Copyright 2004-2005 Andrea Merello <[email protected]>, et al.
*
* Thanks to Realtek for their support!
*
+ ************************************************************************
+ *
+ * The driver was extended to the RTL8187SE in 2014 by
+ * Andrea Merello <[email protected]>
+ *
+ * based also on:
+ * - portions of rtl8187se Linux staging driver, Copyright Realtek corp.
+ * - other GPL, unpublished (until now), Linux driver code,
+ * Copyright Larry Finger <[email protected]>
+ *
+ * A huge thanks goes to Sara V. Nari who forgives me when I'm
+ * sitting in front of my laptop at evening, week-end, night...
+ *
+ * A special thanks goes to Antonio Cuni, who helped me with
+ * some python userspace stuff I used to debug RTL8187SE code, and who
+ * bought a laptop with an unsupported Wi-Fi card some years ago...
+ *
+ * Thanks to Larry Finger for writing some code for rtl8187se and for
+ * his suggestions.
+ *
+ * Thanks to Dan Carpenter for reviewing my initial patch and for his
+ * suggestions.
+ *
+ * Thanks to Bernhard Schiffner for his help in testing and for his
+ * suggestions.
+ *
+ ************************************************************************
+ *
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
@@ -33,10 +60,14 @@

MODULE_AUTHOR("Michael Wu <[email protected]>");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Andrea Merello <[email protected]>");
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("RTL8180 / RTL8185 PCI wireless driver");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("RTL8180 / RTL8185 / RTL8187SE PCI wireless driver");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

static DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(rtl8180_table) = {
+
+ /* rtl8187se */
+ { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8199) },
+
/* rtl8185 */
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8185) },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_BELKIN, 0x700f) },
--
1.8.3.2