[Bcm43xx-dev] wireless: the contenders

2006-01-18 Thread John W. Linville
ver writers are doing a good job with what they've been given so far. I hope this helps to bring the driver guys in out of the cold, and to put some weight behind the discussions of where we need to go. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] wireless: the contenders

2006-01-18 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:19:20PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 21:06, John W. Linville wrote: > > The tree also has "softmac" and "dscape" branches. The "softmac" > > branch includes the Johannes Berg softmac code as

[Bcm43xx-dev] Re: wireless: the contenders

2006-01-18 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:36:59PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > >The "master" branch of that tree is (mostly) up-to-date w/ Linus, plus > >changes I recently sent to Jeff. Those changes are also available on > >the "upstream-jgarzik

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] wireless: the contenders

2006-01-19 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:19:40AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 15:06 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > > The tree also has "softmac" and "dscape" branches. The "softmac" > > branch includes the Johannes Berg softmac code

[Bcm43xx-dev] Pristine firmware image?

2006-01-26 Thread John W. Linville
...? Presuming that no pristine firmware image is currently available, does anyone have specific contacts at Broadcom who might be worth approaching? Thanks, John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de

[Bcm43xx-dev] Re: [GIT PULL] bcm43xx update

2006-01-30 Thread John W. Linville
pull git://bu3sch.de/bcm43xx.git dscape-upstream > > to pull the bcm43xx-dscape branch. > > Did you already pull? I did not see it in your git logs. > I have to do some maintainance work on my public repository > and I am waiting for your pull, before I shut down the server. I have

Re: [GIT PULL] bcm43xx: Update B6PHY initialization

2006-02-09 Thread John W. Linville
rivate *bcm); > > void bcm43xx_radio_set_tx_iq(struct bcm43xx_private *bcm); > +u16 bcm43xx_radio_calibrationvalue(struct bcm43xx_private *bcm); > > #endif /* BCM43xx_RADIO_H_ */ > -- > Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Projec

Re: compiling bcm43xx source on fc4

2006-02-09 Thread John W. Linville
ok under here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fedora-netdev/4/rpms/SRPMS/ -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Please pull bcm43xx softmac-upstream and dscape-upstream branches

2006-03-21 Thread John W. Linville
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:47:55PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > Please pull branches "softmac-upstream" and "dscape-upstream" > from my repository at: > git://bu3sch.de/wireless-2.6.git Merged to softmac and dscape branches of wireless-2.6...thanks! John -- John

Re: [RFC/PATCH] remove unneeded check in bcm43xx

2006-04-10 Thread John W. Linville
deal with the issue. I don't like them, although I am the perpetrator of at least one of them. It might be worth looking at what was done there? YMMV... John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-d80211: measure the channel change time

2006-05-19 Thread John W. Linville
7;t think of stupid APs. Yeah, it should handle it > I guess. I'm going to apply this patch as it stands. Please follow-up with a patch to handle the TSF overflow. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing l

Re: [patch 07/10] bcm43xx: allow PHY revision 8, dont give up on unknown phy_rev

2006-05-24 Thread John W. Linville
. IMHO we shouldn't be trying to use PHYs with unknown > revisions. I don't know about this one in particular, but experience w/ other PHYs tells me that revisions can move quickly. Are you sure you would want the driver to not work just because there is a newer PHY?

Re: [PATCH, RTF/RFC] bcm43xx: Enable local IRQs while executing periodic work

2006-06-05 Thread John W. Linville
nlock lockup and recursion detection > while testing. It has almost been two weeks...do we want this patch, or not? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/l

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: use softmac-suggested TX rate

2006-06-16 Thread John W. Linville
or 2 > make[1]: *** [net/ieee80211] Error 2 > make: *** [net] Error 2 Make sure you are using the 'master' branch of wireless 2.6. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Please pull 'upstream' branch of wireless-2.6

2006-06-27 Thread John W. Linville
shuffle wireless-2.6 to drop this patch. A new patch that passes muster w/ Jeff will be most welcome! :-) Thanks, John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH, RFT] bcm43xx: init routine rewrite (bugfix)

2006-07-06 Thread John W. Linville
. Please correct me if your desire is otherwise. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: acerhk -- salvation for BCM4318???

2006-07-10 Thread John W. Linville
uld take advantage of the "radio button" infrastructure that Ivo van Doorn has been proposing? Any volunteers? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

What's new in 'bcm43xx' branch of wireless-2.6?

2006-07-27 Thread John W. Linville
re found in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git bcm43xx John W. Linville: bcm43xx: fix-up build breakage from merging patches out of order Larry Finger: bcm43xx: improved statistics Michael Buesch: bcm43xx: suspend M

Re: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1: InitVals (bcm43xx_initvalXX.fw) file-format error. Please fix your bcm43xx firmware files.

2006-07-31 Thread John W. Linville
current tree, is as follows: I have applied Larry's patch to my bcm43xx branch...FYI. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de http://bat.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Please pull 'bcm43xx' branch of wireless-2.6?

2006-07-31 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:37:53PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > As most of us are painfully aware, there is a blockage in getting > bcm43xx patches upstream.(*) > (*) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=115137403631920&w=2 After re-reading that thread, I reali

Re: Please pull 'bcm43xx' branch of wireless-2.6?

2006-07-31 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:01:43PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > >Jeff, if a 10ms maximum delay is still acceptable to you, then please > >pull from the bcm43xx branch of wireless-2.6 into the upstream branch > >of netdev-2.6. > > Just to be clea

Re: [patch RFC 3/3] b44: convert to ssb module

2006-08-15 Thread John W. Linville
CI memory access space > (1GB) */ Probably shouldn't change anything to a magic number... -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [patch RFC 3/3] b44: convert to ssb module

2006-08-15 Thread John W. Linville
st: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=115075858220477&w=2 Was there a newer version that I missed? Did you still want the older version applied anyway? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list B

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-d80211: Init, shutdown and restart fixes

2006-08-15 Thread John W. Linville
work supporting both stack to date. I think the dscape stack would be much farther behind w/o the users enabled by the bcm43xx-dscape driver. -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH] WE-21 for bcm43xx (wireless-2.6 git)

2006-08-31 Thread John W. Linville
ybe not other parts. Perhaps you should post the patch w/o WE-20 support. I'll make sure they all get in at the same time (if at all). John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-09-09 Thread John W. Linville
#x27;m not too excited about that. Under the normal process, that would mean 2.6.19 would be broken until we get the next patch. When will the patch for the upstream branch be available? Can you make that patch based on this one (i.e. apply this one before generating the next patch)? John -- Jo

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-09-11 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:59:01PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > >Also, if you could just use "---" instead of a long line of "==", > >I think I would have to do less manual processing...thanks! > > Sorry about the === rath

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-softmac: update noise handling

2006-09-12 Thread John W. Linville
/* Store the last TX/RX times here for updating the leds. */ -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-09-11 Thread John W. Linville
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 11:04:59AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:47:54PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > > > >>PLease send this upstream for inclusion in 2.6.18, if possible. This > >>patch will not work for >

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-softmac: improve wrong firmware message

2006-09-14 Thread John W. Linville
looking at Michael's v4 firmware revisions for d80211 with > an eye toward porting them to softmac. > > John - what do you think? Let's just take the new/current patch as-is. Someone who understands "rev > 0x128" should be able to find the message in the code for him

Re: >1GB RAM bug on AMD 64bit

2006-09-14 Thread John W. Linville
44 driver (same DMA engine) for some time now on Fedora and RHEL. John P.S. FWIW, it _seems_ like a good idea. It is just a victim of implementation details. -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH] AMD x86_64 >1GB RAM DMA problem solved?

2006-09-25 Thread John W. Linville
lowed in C99. > Other C99 features are already used and accepted in kernel, why not this one? Most kernel developers just don't like those comment delimiters -- simple as that. It is probably because they are a bit harder to identify as comments than the older style, but YMMV... Joh

Re: bcm43xx-SoftMac in 2.6.18.1

2006-10-17 Thread John W. Linville
, please be a little more descriptive of what you are sending > me, so I can know to reject big features like this one :) I'm sorry Greg. I should have warned you about that. Did I get copied on that patch? Anyway, I should have seen it in your -stable review postings. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Fwd: [PATCH] bcm43xx: (hopefully) fix watchdog timeouts.

2006-10-24 Thread John W. Linville
Michael, It looks like you have a patch that I don't have, one that moves the netif_tx_disable and spin_lock_irqsave outside of the "if (badness > BADNESS_LIMIT)" conditional. Could you pass that one along as well, or correct this patch to match what is in Linus' tree? Thanks, John On Tue, Oct

Re: Fwd: [PATCH] bcm43xx: (hopefully) fix watchdog timeouts.

2006-10-24 Thread John W. Linville
Michael, It looks like you have a patch that I don't have, one that moves the netif_tx_disable and spin_lock_irqsave outside of the "if (badness > BADNESS_LIMIT)" conditional. Could you pass that one along as well, or correct this patch to match what is in Linus' tree? Thanks, John On Tue, Oct

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: fix unexpected LED control values in BCM4303 sprom

2006-10-31 Thread John W. Linville
M43xx_LED_BCM4303_0 0x2B > > +#define BCM43xx_LED_BCM4303_1 0x78 > > +#define BCM43xx_LED_BCM4303_2 0x2E > > +#define BCM43xx_LED_BCM4303_3 0x19 > > Add these to the enum below, instead, please. > The defines above are mask

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: fix unexpected LED control values in BCM4303 sprom

2006-11-01 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:34:20PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 04:37:08PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > >>>@@ -257,7 +263,11 @@ void bcm43xx_leds_update(struct bcm43xx_ > >>> continu

Re: [PATCH 2/4] bcm43xx-d80211: Add wireless statistics

2006-11-03 Thread John W. Linville
that I had pulled changes that Michael had sent to > John in te past week. If those are applied first, mine should apply cleanly. I applied them last night w/o incident. They are available in the current wireless-dev. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patch to allow specification of interface name prefix

2007-02-26 Thread John W. Linville
If this means breaking the expectation > of older > out of tree wireless support (ie madwifi), sorry. Any chance you could provide a pointer to that discussion in the archives? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-

Re: Assertion failed in ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate

2007-03-02 Thread John W. Linville
). > > I can test another tree, e.g. wireless-2.6, if there are chances that > the problem has been fixed. Does the tree you are using have this commit? commit 6bbdce5ac755e3b3cdcf9bb9fdbcc2af78ad34d0 Author: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue Jan 2 21:22:05 2007 -05

Re: Pull the patch sent under heading "[PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix typo in B5PHY init specifications"

2007-03-06 Thread John W. Linville
not apply that patch". "Pull" is often used to mean "take the patch and apply it" as in "git pull". Let me know if I'm interpreting you incorrectly. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailin

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix typo in B5PHY init specifications

2007-03-12 Thread John W. Linville
to be init'd with g mode > off. I'm not sure anyone has picked up this fix yet. The relevant > spec fix is here: http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/802.11/PHY/calinit FWIW, by inspection it looks like the mac80211-based driver is (trying?) to implement this change. David, have you

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix typo in B5PHY init specifications

2007-03-12 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:42:18PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 10:53 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > >> FWIW, by inspection it looks like the mac80211-based driver is > >> (trying?) to implement this change. > >

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix typo in B5PHY init specifications

2007-03-12 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:16:34PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 10:53 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > > > FWIW, by inspection it looks like the mac80211-based driver is > > (trying?) to implement this change. > > > > David, have you

Re: [RFC] Eliminate some 'G Mode Enable' magic numbers

2007-03-14 Thread John W. Linville
18), is not. > This patch replaces both types with a defined constant. In addition, two > bits in the TM State High registers are given definitions to help in > following the code. Looks reasonable to me -- not sure why this is an RFC? Does anyone object? John --

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: Add firmware version to ethtool output

2007-03-16 Thread John W. Linville
3xx_SHM_SHARED, > > BCM43xx_UCODE_REVISION)); > > This will crash when the device is not up. Larry, will you be doing a new version of this patch that accounts for this comment? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-21 Thread John W. Linville
el oops if the bcm43xx > chip contains a USB (dangling) core. This bug has been fixed in Michael > Buesch's tree, but > apparently not yet in Linville's wireless-dev tree. The patch is as follows: FWIW, that patch is in my tree as of yesterday. Presumably it should be in the

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-21 Thread John W. Linville
n't freeze unregistered devices. > > No, that's a different fix for suspend. > > This is the fix: > http://bu3sch.de/gitweb?p=wireless-dev.git;a=commitdiff;h=b87f743f3643ea162892dce0bbc91e6f026a49bf > > Pull request was sent to John. That's "ssb-ohci: Completely disable the driver on non-embedded systems", also in wireless-dev as of yesterday. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: combined on 2.6.20.3

2007-03-22 Thread John W. Linville
or the day when mac80211 replaces softmac in the mainline > > kernel. What would we > > need to do? Why? What value do you predict in having an out-of-tree softmac version available? Would that effort be better spent on improving the in-tree mac80211 version? John -- Jo

Re: combined on 2.6.20.3

2007-03-25 Thread John W. Linville
r the > 4311 out of the mac80211 version. It compiled cleanly, booted up fine, loaded > bcm43xx-softmac and is > running correctly. Did you "=y" the config options? That is what causes the problem when linking the kernel image. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: combined on 2.6.20.3

2007-03-25 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 04:09:51PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > > Is converting the softmac driver to mac80211 (as bcm43xx-old or > > somesuch) really a bigger job than trying to maintain out-of-tree > > code for both the driver and the softmac

Re: combined on 2.6.20.3

2007-03-25 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 05:02:45PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > But what's needed now is a working standalone driver for all supported > cards. Out of kernel drivers are a distraction, and IMHO should be avoided. -- John W. Linville [EMAI

Re: combined on 2.6.20.3

2007-03-25 Thread John W. Linville
in the kernel for some period of time (however short that might be). When the drivers come out, softmac comes out too. It certainly will not be left in the kernel to support an out of kernel driver. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bc

Re: combined on 2.6.20.3

2007-03-25 Thread John W. Linville
wo drivers, one for v3 firmware and one for later firmware. Why is this such a problem? Afterall, at one time the mac80211 (then d80211) driver supported v3 firmware. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-de

Re: combined on 2.6.20.3

2007-03-25 Thread John W. Linville
we should consider this. I am not keen on keeping softmac around indefinitely. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

BCM43xx_LOCALE_USA_CANADA_ANZ correct? -- Re: Please pull 'upstream-fixes' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-04-12 Thread John W. Linville
-encoding; > > b=c13rHvw5Z5QAZnP6CrA3+XeeF4D8Zdi7GRjiZK3vAoqYZ78O8yNQ6bkAzpi1pKGhbffVx3bGd44Ok057V3PWVhsMjncGr5jMKiiAEQJRpDpKIB++oimQXCPHjGCxUQwesBr2V/yvL06CcBZKsupeD7hHAvo2CeVCLWCuSmcwiGM= > Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:16:59 +1000 > From: "stevie.glass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > User-A

Re: BCM43xx_LOCALE_USA_CANADA_ANZ correct? -- Re: Please pull 'upstream-fixes' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-04-12 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:52:17AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > >BCM43xx_LOCALE_USA_CANADA_ANZ a correct grouping? > Those categories were copied from the data in the SPROM on the BCM43xx > chips, which are obviously out of date. That said, it is likely t

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix machine checks on PPC with rev 1 PHYs

2007-04-12 Thread John W. Linville
urrent rawhide kernels but with the most recent round of wireless-dev updates added. http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fc7/ Any thoughts? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: [PATCH] ieee80211-crypt: Make some TKIP and CCMP error logging conditional on IEEE80211_DEBUG_DROP

2007-04-17 Thread John W. Linville
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:25:08AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:12 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 07:24:14PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > > > Michael Buesch wrote: > > > > On Monday 16 April

Re: [PATCH] ieee80211-crypt: Make some TKIP and CCMP error logging conditional on IEEE80211_DEBUG_DROP

2007-04-17 Thread John W. Linville
ymbol exports, especially those which are fundamentally internal to in-kernel subsystems and/or have no reasonable usage by drivers. FWIW, this symbol would seem to fulfill both of those criteria. If you do not object, I would prefer the _GPL version of the patch. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Is mac80211 generally available for use with bcm43xx?

2007-05-03 Thread John W. Linville
; Yes, the module is present in the wireless-dev git repository. It's not > yet in any released version of Linux. FWIW, it should be available in Fedora 7 (due at the end of the month). John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Merging SSB upstream

2007-05-05 Thread John W. Linville
guess I don't see a problem w/ merging the mips part, as long as the b44 part has been thoroughly tested. I wonder if Ralf has an opinion? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Merging SSB upstream

2007-05-06 Thread John W. Linville
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 11:44:27AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Sunday 06 May 2007 04:00:51 John W. Linville wrote: > > I had to remove > > the b44 ssb changes from fedora because a) users reported problems; > > Which problems were that? The 2 compile issues? > Triv

Re: Upgrade to f7 breaks bcm43xx module

2007-06-01 Thread John W. Linville
n this archive: http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 Hth! John [1] Using bcm43xx-fwcutter, of course. -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: bcm4318 in an HP dv5120us lappy

2007-06-03 Thread John W. Linville
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 01:39:25PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > I can only guess at why FC 7 uses the mac80211 driver. To wean people off of softmac's teat... -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm

Re: bcm4318 in an HP dv5120us lappy

2007-06-04 Thread John W. Linville
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 05:04:18PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 01:39:25PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > > > >>I can only guess at why FC 7 uses the mac80211 driver. > > > >To wean people off of softmac's

Re: bcm4301: A mac80211 driver using V3 firmware

2007-07-19 Thread John W. Linville
om using the v4 firmware? Anyway, I'm glad to hear we are making progress on this front. Good job, Larry! John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: bcm4301: A mac80211 driver using V3 firmware

2007-07-20 Thread John W. Linville
onflict. Users don't expect the need to rename firmware, > and we shouldn't create a problem for them. Yes, we should probably start using a default value for fwpostfix. As dwmw2 suggested, it would also be nice to fall back to an empty fwpostfix if the firmware is not found w/ the defa

Re: bcm4301: A mac80211 driver using V3 firmware

2007-07-20 Thread John W. Linville
wonder if that is too prone to confusion w/ "b44"? Probably no worse than "ixgb" vs "cxgb3" or "e100" vs "e1000" I suppose. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix specs typo for baseband attenuation

2007-07-26 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 01:49:58PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > > > >Hmmm...well, if you asked to revert it on bcm43xx, why is it appropriate > >here? > > AFAIK, the V4 specs have always had the typo, thus there was no patch > introduci

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix specs typo for baseband attenuation

2007-07-26 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:56:20PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:33:01AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > >>A typo in the specs interchanges the branches in an if statement, which > >>breaks operations for a BCM4306/rev

Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix specs typo for baseband attenuation

2007-07-26 Thread John W. Linville
en reverted in F-7)? That one change "==" to ">", while this one changes "==" to "!=". Instead of reverting the other, should it do the same thing as this? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm4

Re: [PATCH] Merge the Sonics Silicon Backplane subsystem

2007-07-27 Thread John W. Linville
style issues that might be identified, I'll state that this code has been carried in wireless-dev for months and thereby also spent a lot of time in -mm as well as Fedora (rawhide and F-7). The code has proven to be reasonably stable and reliable. Acked-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: mac80211 IPv6 problems

2007-08-02 Thread John W. Linville
cture -- and > you'll see the link-local IPv6 address remains 'tentative'. > > Once you've fixed that, setting up a local route advertisement dæmon > (radvd) to give you site-local addresses is fairly trivial too -- and > then you can also check that Ethernet multicast is

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-wireless-dev bcm43xx_mac80211 associates, but?Ethernet appears broken

2007-08-06 Thread John W. Linville
> > I agree completely; however, I've had my "hands slapped" in the past for > > removing that kind of > > message. As a result, I leave them alone. > > Well, there are good reasons for not removing this. > The resons include that this message is only

Re: mac80211 IPv6 problems

2007-08-06 Thread John W. Linville
function that > might work though that would probably involve more code to add all the right > checks. The patch below seems to work for me w/ an otherwise stock F-7 kernel w/ iwl3945. Thoughts? From: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [PATCH] mac80211: filter locally-originate

Re: 4311 works with fedora 7 but only at 1mb/s

2007-08-08 Thread John W. Linville
ting > through the system make bcm43xx-mac80211 into the preferred driver. You > should ask Fedora how soon > those will make it into their development kernels (called Rawhide?). Probably tonight. Maybe earlier if you watch Koji. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: bcm4301 -> bcm43xx-legacy

2007-08-09 Thread John W. Linville
on the ssb info. Excellent. This definitely sounds like the right path to keeping the drivers straight (or "properly sorted" as the limeys might say). :-) John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@list

Re: bcm4301 -> bcm43xx-legacy

2007-08-09 Thread John W. Linville
> b43 is more a common name in my eyes and b43something would be better. Premature optimization -- if something new shows-up, let it have the longer name... John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-d

wireless-dev rebased, new rebasing policies

2007-08-14 Thread John W. Linville
of patches in development. The git-format-patch, git-applymbox, and git-rebase commands are handy as well. Those simply following the tree should learn about the "--reference" option to git-clone, and should use it often. Keeping a backup of previous git trees with any work in progress w

Re: mac80211 IPv6 problems

2007-08-17 Thread John W. Linville
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:52:56AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 13:05 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > > --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c > > +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211.c > > @@ -3030,9 +3030,10 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_data(struct ieee80211_txrx_data *rx

Re: Does auto-loading of b43 work for you?

2007-08-17 Thread John W. Linville
iling, I would like to > know your distro. Seems to work fine for me w/ latest wireless-dev built w/ mostly-stock (had to change BCM43XX-MAC80211 to B43) F-7 kernel config on T41 w/ F-7. Don't even have the "%X" patch. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [patch 6/6] b43: New firmware file format

2007-08-21 Thread John W. Linville
ct b43_wldev *dev, if (err) { b43err(dev->wl, "Firmware file \"%s\" not found " "or load failed.\n", path); + return err; } if ((*fw)->size < sizeof(struct b43_fw_header))

Re: ALERT: firmware change for b43

2007-08-22 Thread John W. Linville
rball available for download, as with bcm43xx-fwcutter? It would be handy for packaging. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: ALERT: firmware change for b43

2007-08-22 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:25:28AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 02:37:21PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > >>Just in case you missed the details, the latest set of changes to b43 > >>queued by Michael will require > &g

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: fix b43 compilation

2007-08-22 Thread John W. Linville
ith a wireless-dev patch that does not depend on Dave's tree. The mm-master branch in wireless-dev has dropped those patches which have gone to Dave M. in the hopes of avoiding conflicts. Dependencies are another matter... :-) John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH] b43legacy: Initial port of new driver with bcm43xx PHY code and ssb/mac80211 front end

2007-08-23 Thread John W. Linville
ilable in 'everything' as well. -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH] b43, b43legacy: Fix inconsistency between branches 'b43' and 'everything' in wireless-dev

2007-08-23 Thread John W. Linville
Kconfig and Makefile in my tree. I was able to build it just fine. Yes, I checked to make sure I had included them in git. :-) -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: minor grips with b43

2007-08-24 Thread John W. Linville
bit rate for my BCM4311 was toggling between 18 and 24M. With the same setup, > b43 usually is at > either 48 or 54M. Take that Broadcom!!! Hereby nominated for quote of the day, 2007-08-24... :-) -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm

Re: Updated Status on b43 driver and Fedora 7

2007-08-27 Thread John W. Linville
l terms? I'm wondering if a tool could easily convert the old firmware format to the new, so that we might add it as an upgrade tool for F8. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: fetching wireless dev

2007-08-29 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 07:34:58PM +0200, Richard Jonsson wrote: > I can't figure out how to keep up to date with the wireless dev tree. > I've set up as told by John W. Linville in a post here and use the > "everything" branch. > > When browsing the tree at

Re: fetching wireless dev

2007-08-29 Thread John W. Linville
epository -- no new changes since your clone... John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH V2] b43legacy: Don't cancel the restart workqueue in wireless_core_exit

2007-09-17 Thread John W. Linville
b43legacy_wireless_core_detach(wldev); > list_del(&wldev->list); > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH V2] b43legacy: Don't cancel the restart workqueue in wireless_core_exit

2007-09-17 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:05:36PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > > Is this the correct patch? The first hunk conflicts with an earlier > > patch ("b43legacy: Fix cancellation of work queues"). > > > > John > > Yes, this one is

Re: Machine Check on Fedora rawhide kernel.

2007-09-17 Thread John W. Linville
rxhdr->mac_status); > > mactime = le16_to_cpu(rxhdr->mac_time); > > chanstat = le16_to_cpu(rxhdr->channel); > > Did this one get committed yet? Working on it now... -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [PATCH] b43: Leds spinlock SMP compilefix

2007-10-03 Thread John W. Linville
s); > + spin_lock_irqsave(&wl->leds_lock, flags); > ctl = b43_read16(dev, B43_MMIO_GPIO_CONTROL); > if (activelow) > ctl |= (1 << led_index); > else > ctl &= ~(1 << led_index); > b43_write16(dev,

Re: 4311: trouble with Fedora 8 Test 3

2007-10-10 Thread John W. Linville
ning, not an error. :-) John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH] ssb: Fix regression in 2.6.23-git3 due to change in calling add_uevent_var

2007-10-16 Thread John W. Linville
s patch fixes > the problem. Sorry, Al Viro got a patch merged before I got to yours! Thanks anyway! John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH #3] b43: Fix sparse warnings.

2007-10-18 Thread John W. Linville
ch or did you simply forget to apply it? Where are you looking? It is in Linus' tree. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1a09404a2338163f181d170c7abdc2242b6c6f03 John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [PATCH #3] b43: Fix sparse warnings.

2007-10-19 Thread John W. Linville
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:47:13PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Thursday 18 October 2007 21:53:22 John W. Linville wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:34:03PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > The remaining warning in phy.c will be fixed later. > > > > >

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