From: Solomon Peachy (solomonlinux-wlan.com)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 15:53:39 CDT

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ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre4.tar.gz

Treat this one with extreme care! It's had very little testing so far.

There are a small pile of bugfixes and other changes, more card idents,
and two large changes, the first being the Chris Rankin's USB cleanups.
That shouldn't appear any different to the end-user, though it may be a
bit more reliable than it used to be.

The other change is yet another overhaul of the init scripts and hotplug
support. This is a radical departure from before; all of the wlan
configuration is now handled via hotplug events. This includes the
likes of power management too; so the device will come back up cleanly
on a resume.

The exception is pcmcia; it is currently still handled by dedicated
scripts, but I hope to rectify that shortly. (prism2_cs still triggers
the hotplug scripts, but the events are ignored for now) The only thing
lost by moving away from the pcmcia-specific stuff is the pcmcia scheme
support which is partially broken anyway.

I'm especially interested in feedback and bug reports on the new script
workings; there's more I intend to do with it.

-pre4
  - Substantial prism2_usb patch from Chris Rankin.
    - using 2 Linux lists for CTLXs
    - remove race condition and double-free with CTLXs in disconnect()
    - initialise URBs correctly (vital for Linux 2.5+)
    - separate callbacks for data/CTLX OUT URBs
    - flush task queue on shutdown
    - more thorough use of spinlocks with CTLXs
    - set the ASYNC_UNLINK flag when it is time to unlink an URB
      asynchronously, and not before.
    - ensure we stop submitting URBs once the disconnect function
      is called.
  - More USB idents (Jeff Chua)
  - Scan now uses active scans only; should speed things up a bit.
  - Proper module init/cleanup in prism2sta.c, plus more work for 2.5.69
  - Added in descriptions for module parameters.
  - Major overhaul of the hotplug stuff. Now we use our own hotplug
    event class, and use that to kick off configuration and whatnot.
    All device types (pci/plx/pcmcia/usb) now use this mechanism.
    Also brings us things like unified power management (suspend/resume)
  - Supress spurious output when setting WEP parameters.
  - Only query PrivacyOptionImplemented if wep was enabled in the config
    Works around an apparent firmware bug, see http://bugs.debian.org/190851
  - Eliminate hw->name.
  - Card ident for NL-2511CD Plus pcmcia card.
  - Minor tweak on pcmcia removal.
  - Fix the USB compile on <2.4.20

 - Pizza
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