Am Montag 02 Oktober 2006 11:33 schrieb Michael Buesch: > On Monday 02 October 2006 11:20, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > Am Montag 02 Oktober 2006 10:43 schrieb Michael Buesch: > > > On Sunday 01 October 2006 14:11, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > > > Am Dienstag 26 September 2006 16:46 schrieb Larry Finger: > > > > > To fix as much as we can at the moment, please get the > > > > > "patch_2.6.18_to_wireless-2.6.bz2" file from > > > > > ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches and apply that to your kernel. > > > > > > > > Anything else that could be applied? I built 2.6.18 with wireless2.6 > > > > patch yesterday and tonight, I got: > > > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: wlan0: transmit timed out > > > > bcm43xx: Controller RESET (TX timeout) ... > > > > bcm43xx: Controller restarted > > > > > > > > I have a BCM4306. > > > > > > Complete logs, please. > > > > That's what you got, I didn't build with debug output enabled. > > Ah, you want us to debug the problem, but compiled > without debug support. You see the problem? ;)
The problem is that bcm43xx does not differ much between severity of debug messages. Examples: When compiling without _debug_ messages, I do not even get information about the detected chipset. Only: bcm43xx driver is pretty thin output (please replace that line with useful information). OTOH, _compiling_ with debug messages gives me _lots_ of output all the time, making dmesg rather useless for normal use. How about triggering this on/off at runtime (e.g. module parameter debug or sysfs file) with default to off? For distribution kernels, this would be _a_lot_ better. Until the driver is sufficiently stable, just compile them in by default. If same goes for softmac, that would be even greater. Usually, those errors happen more than once (one-time bugs are rather hard to fix). Just don't assume that the user does not need dmesg output for other purposes, too. And having endless pages with softmac+bcm43xx lines is just that. HS _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
