Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 19 December 2007 09:11:02 Larry Finger wrote: > > > > > > or could tsc being marked as unstable have anything to do with the > > > speed of network transfers? > > > > Absolutely not. > > Well, if the clocksource of the machine is unsta

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-19 Thread Larry Finger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Larry, thanks for being so patient so far. Tomorrow I plan to take my > laptop to somewhere with coffee and a wireless network. For now > though, can you tell me if these messages could be related: > PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge :00:05.0 > PCI: Can

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-18 Thread mvtodevnull
Larry, thanks for being so patient so far. Tomorrow I plan to take my laptop to somewhere with coffee and a wireless network. For now though, can you tell me if these messages could be related: PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge :00:05.0 PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of b

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-17 Thread mvtodevnull
On Dec 17, 2007 8:16 PM, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I hope that you have now convinced yourself that you should be using b43 and > not messing around > forcing b43legacy to use a device for which it was not intended. > I was convinced the moment I realized it worked exactly the s

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-17 Thread Larry Finger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't know what happened before, but after a reboot, I can't repeat > the 200 kB/s speed. It's back down to 40 kB/s, just like originally. I > didn't move the laptop, or the ap, the only thing I can think of that > might have changed is the noise level. FWIW, link qu

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-17 Thread mvtodevnull
On Dec 17, 2007 6:18 PM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 00:12:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Well, I'm not sure what you mean by "requires" b43, but I did say that > > the device uses the b43 driver. > > Requires means requires. > Ok, noted. > > Sorry

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Buesch
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 00:12:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007 5:45 PM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ehm, excuse me. > > What are you doing exactly? In this thread you told me you have > > a device which requires b43: > > > > Well, I'm not sure what you mean b

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-17 Thread mvtodevnull
On Dec 17, 2007 5:45 PM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ehm, excuse me. > What are you doing exactly? In this thread you told me you have > a device which requires b43: > Well, I'm not sure what you mean by "requires" b43, but I did say that the device uses the b43 driver. > > I do

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Buesch
On Monday 17 December 2007 23:04:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007 5:35 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If this is a mac80211 related problem, then other systems connecting > > to the same ap and using mac80211 would also be affected? Like I said > > earlier, there are five machines

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-17 Thread mvtodevnull
On Dec 17, 2007 5:35 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this is a mac80211 related problem, then other systems connecting > to the same ap and using mac80211 would also be affected? Like I said > earlier, there are five machines connecting to this ap, and I just > realized one of them has a ralin

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-17 Thread mvtodevnull
If this is a mac80211 related problem, then other systems connecting to the same ap and using mac80211 would also be affected? Like I said earlier, there are five machines connecting to this ap, and I just realized one of them has a ralink card that uses the rt2x00 driver, which I believe is mac802

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-17 Thread mvtodevnull
On Dec 17, 2007 4:49 AM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you working with wireless-2.6's #everything branch? I've been working with vanilla wireless-2.6, but I've also tried the everything branch as well as other trees. Just for good measure, I just rebuilt the everything branch

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Buesch
On Monday 17 December 2007 08:17:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007 1:52 AM, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > One major difference between bcm43xx-SoftMAC and b43-mac80211 is that the > > former always used a fixed > > rate; whereas mac80211 tries to adjust the bit rate a

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-16 Thread mvtodevnull
On Dec 17, 2007 1:52 AM, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One major difference between bcm43xx-SoftMAC and b43-mac80211 is that the > former always used a fixed > rate; whereas mac80211 tries to adjust the bit rate according to the > transmission conditions. > Perhaps it isn't working

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-16 Thread Larry Finger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Dec 15, 2007 7:38 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'll build latest wireless git without ipv6 late tonight. > > Ok, built and tested, and it's actually faster! Although still not as > fast as bcm43xx or softmac or whatever the problem is, I was getting a > steady 2

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-16 Thread mvtodevnull
On Dec 15, 2007 7:38 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll build latest wireless git without ipv6 late tonight. Ok, built and tested, and it's actually faster! Although still not as fast as bcm43xx or softmac or whatever the problem is, I was getting a steady 200 kB/s (as opposed to 500 kB/s fo

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-16 Thread Johannes Berg
> > On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 00:27 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > On Sunday 16 December 2007 00:18:43 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Well, the only problem with that is I suspect there are some "newer" > > > > cards that > > > > work better with v3 firmware, although they are supposed to suppo

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-16 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 16 of December 2007, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 00:27 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Sunday 16 December 2007 00:18:43 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Well, the only problem with that is I suspect there are some "newer" > > > cards that > > > work better with v3

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-16 Thread Johannes Berg
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 00:27 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Sunday 16 December 2007 00:18:43 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Well, the only problem with that is I suspect there are some "newer" cards > > that > > work better with v3 firmware, although they are supposed to support both. Impossible

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-16 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 16 December 2007 10:22:43 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It's not that simple. For example, regression testing will be a > > > major PITA if one needs to switch back and forth from the new driver > > > to the old one in the process. > >

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-16 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 16 December 2007 03:30:16 Larry Finger wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Sunday 16 December 2007 00:18:43 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> Well, the only problem with that is I suspect there are some "newer" cards > >> that > >> work better with v3 firmware, although they are supposed t

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not that simple. For example, regression testing will be a > > major PITA if one needs to switch back and forth from the new driver > > to the old one in the process. > > Not really true -- a single system can easily have firmware install

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-15 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
On Sonntag, 16. Dezember 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, 15 of December 2007, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:25:50AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Friday, 14 of December 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > > > > Either distributions have to install it

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-15 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: On Sunday 16 December 2007 00:18:43 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Well, the only problem with that is I suspect there are some "newer" cards that work better with v3 firmware, although they are supposed to support both. And I suspect that you are wrong until you show me one. :

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-15 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 16 December 2007 00:18:43 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Well, the only problem with that is I suspect there are some "newer" cards > that > work better with v3 firmware, although they are supposed to support both. And I suspect that you are wrong until you show me one. :) -- Greetings Mi

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 15 of December 2007, John W. Linville wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:25:50AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Friday, 14 of December 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > > Either distributions have to install it automatically or people simply > > > have > > > to read one or t

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 15 of December 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Saturday 15 December 2007 01:51:47 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Friday, 14 of December 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > On Friday 14 December 2007 13:59:54 Simon Holm Thøgersen wrote: > > > > > This user did get the following messages

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-15 Thread John W. Linville
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:25:50AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Friday, 14 of December 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > > Either distributions have to install it automatically or people simply have > > to read one or two lines of documentation. That's just what I wanted to > > say. > > It'

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-15 Thread mvtodevnull
On Dec 15, 2007 2:18 AM, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It will take a while to finish looking over those logs, but are you using > ipv6? If not, please > blacklist the ipv6 module to prevent it from loading - add the line > 'blacklist ipv6' to file > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. In so

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-15 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 15 December 2007 01:51:47 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Friday, 14 of December 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Friday 14 December 2007 13:59:54 Simon Holm Thøgersen wrote: > > > > This user did get the following messages in dmesg: > > > > > > > > b43err(dev->wl, "Firmware file \"%s\

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Larry Finger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 14, 2007 11:37 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll attach these logs since I can't read much into them. I should do what I say... It will take a while to finish looking over those logs, but are you using ipv6? If not, please blacklist the ipv6 module to pre

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread mvtodevnull
On Dec 14, 2007 9:27 PM, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suspect that mac80211 is doing something that your router does not like. Do > you have any chance to > capture the traffic between your computer and the router by using a second > wireless computer running > kismet or wireshar

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Larry Finger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could this be the reason my BCM94311MCG rev 1 receives such terrible performance with b43 but works well with bcm43xx? The device is 802.11b/g but my router is 802.11b. I filed a report on this issue here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=413291 No. On my BC

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread mvtodevnull
On Dec 14, 2007 7:58 PM, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Actually, can you explain why, from the technical point of view, the > > version 4 > > firware is better than version 3, please? > > I will be very interested in Michael's answer to this question; h

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 14 of December 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2007 18:59:10 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > In my opinion this all is the work of the distributions and not the > > > work of the kernel developers. Distributions have

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Larry Finger
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Actually, can you explain why, from the technical point of view, the version 4 firware is better than version 3, please? I will be very interested in Michael's answer to this question; however, my experience is that it doesn't make much difference if your device is su

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 14 of December 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2007 13:59:54 Simon Holm Thøgersen wrote: > > > This user did get the following messages in dmesg: > > > > > > b43err(dev->wl, "Firmware file \"%s\" not found " > > >"or load failed.\n", path); > > > > So the qu

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ray Lee
On Dec 14, 2007 12:13 PM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ray, I _do_ want to understand what is going on in your machine. > I _have_ to understand it. But I currently do not understand how the > quoted patch could fix modprobe of b43 or rfkill. I'd simply call that > impossible. Then

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 20:55:43 Ray Lee wrote: > Oh. My. God. > > Michael. I have a degree in Physics. I placed sixth in the world > finals of the ACM Collegiate programming contest in 1999, Cal Poly > Team Gold. ( http://icpc.baylor.edu/past/icpc99/Finals/Tour/Win/Win.html > , I'm the guy all

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ray Lee
On Dec 14, 2007 11:38 AM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2007 20:25:39 Ray Lee wrote: > > > I'm sorry. The patch that _you_ quoted fixes a blinking LED > > > and nothing else. > > > > Well, you're wrong. Sorry, but that's just the way it is. See below. > > > > > I

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 20:25:39 Ray Lee wrote: > > I'm sorry. The patch that _you_ quoted fixes a blinking LED > > and nothing else. > > Well, you're wrong. Sorry, but that's just the way it is. See below. > > > It does _not_ fix loading of rfkill or b43 in any way. > > It does, however, fix

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ray Lee
On Dec 14, 2007 11:05 AM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2007 19:45:02 Ray Lee wrote: > > > > One problem related to b43 source code, patch exists, has yet to be > > > > merged upstream. > > > > > > Yeah. A problem preventing a LED from blinking. > > > That's a re

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 19:45:02 Ray Lee wrote: > > > One problem related to b43 source code, patch exists, has yet to be > > > merged upstream. > > > > Yeah. A problem preventing a LED from blinking. > > That's a real regression Come on. Stop that bullshit. > > I'm going to say this one la

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ray Lee
On Dec 14, 2007 10:11 AM, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Ray Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now I'm going to go off, sit in the sun, sip some coffee, and think > > happy thoughts of kittens playing with yarn for a while. > > ok, and given the time-shift and apparent season-shift i

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ray Lee
I've run out of time to donate to the kernel today, so I'll keep this short. On Dec 14, 2007 10:22 AM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you have a PCI device probing works as follows: > > > The PCI table is in ssb. So as soon as your kernel detects the PCI device > > > it will lo

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 18:59:10 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In my opinion this all is the work of the distributions and not the > > work of the kernel developers. Distributions have to make sure that > > everything works after a kernel update. [.

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 19:01:51 Ray Lee wrote: > No, I don't have module autoloading disabled. modprobe-ing b43 > automatically loads ssb. Neither, however, will load rfkill or > rfkill-input. And if they aren't loaded, then b43/ssb are *completely* > silent during load. Nothing to dmesg at all

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ray Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I'm going to go off, sit in the sun, sip some coffee, and think > happy thoughts of kittens playing with yarn for a while. ok, and given the time-shift and apparent season-shift i'll sit in the evening, watch the snowfall and think happy thoughts of k

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ray Lee
On Dec 14, 2007 8:49 AM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2007 17:06:39 Ray Lee wrote: > > Hi all. Perhaps I can inject some facts into this? > > > > On Dec 14, 2007 5:08 AM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This user did get the following message

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my opinion this all is the work of the distributions and not the > work of the kernel developers. Distributions have to make sure that > everything works after a kernel update. [...] actually, not. The the task of kernel developers is to KEEP OL

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ray Lee
On Dec 14, 2007 8:59 AM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What if you want to compile your own kernel? Well, then you are on > your own anyway. You have to track kernel changes anyway. I'm trying to help you test your code before it goes out to the unsuspecting masses. Do you think I do

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 17:45:52 Ray Lee wrote: > On Dec 14, 2007 8:27 AM, Ray Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 14, 2007 6:40 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Agreed. As a b43legacy maintainer, I'd be happy to know if Ingo > > > suggests other ways to smooth out the transition. I h

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 17:06:39 Ray Lee wrote: > Hi all. Perhaps I can inject some facts into this? > > On Dec 14, 2007 5:08 AM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This user did get the following messages in dmesg: > > > > > > > > b43err(dev->wl, "Firmware file \"%s\" not found

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ray Lee
On Dec 14, 2007 8:27 AM, Ray Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 14, 2007 6:40 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Agreed. As a b43legacy maintainer, I'd be happy to know if Ingo > > suggests other ways to smooth out the transition. I haven't read > > proposals yet. > > This isn't rocket scienc

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ray Lee
On Dec 14, 2007 6:40 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agreed. As a b43legacy maintainer, I'd be happy to know if Ingo > suggests other ways to smooth out the transition. I haven't read > proposals yet. This isn't rocket science guys. Put a file in somewhere in your tree called ReleaseAnnouncement

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ray Lee
Hi all. Perhaps I can inject some facts into this? On Dec 14, 2007 5:08 AM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This user did get the following messages in dmesg: > > > > > > b43err(dev->wl, "Firmware file \"%s\" not found " > > >"or load failed.\n", path); > > > b43err(wl, "Yo

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread stefano . brivio
"John W. Linville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:56:24AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh come on. b43 is more than a year old now. How long should we wait? > Two or three? Forever? possibly forever, if you dont get obvious

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread John W. Linville
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:56:24AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh come on. b43 is more than a year old now. How long should we wait? > > Two or three? Forever? > > possibly forever, if you dont get obvious regressions like "my wlan does > not w

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 13:53:27 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This user did get the following messages in dmesg: > > > > b43err(dev->wl, "Firmware file \"%s\" not found " > >"or load failed.\n", path); > > b43err(wl, "You must go to " > >

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 13:59:54 Simon Holm Thøgersen wrote: > > This user did get the following messages in dmesg: > > > > b43err(dev->wl, "Firmware file \"%s\" not found " > >"or load failed.\n", path); > > So the question seems to be why b43 needs version 4, when b43legacy and > bcm

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
fre, 14 12 2007 kl. 13:31 +0100, skrev Michael Buesch: > On Friday 14 December 2007 13:16:17 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > The testers who did nothing but reported that the new driver did not > > > > work on their hardware. > > > > > > Which

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This user did get the following messages in dmesg: > > b43err(dev->wl, "Firmware file \"%s\" not found " >"or load failed.\n", path); > b43err(wl, "You must go to " >"http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware " >

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 13:16:17 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The testers who did nothing but reported that the new driver did not > > > work on their hardware. > > > > Which testers? > > right in this thread Ray Lee is reporting: > > | | Diggi

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The testers who did nothing but reported that the new driver did not > > work on their hardware. > > Which testers? right in this thread Ray Lee is reporting: | | Digging a little farther into it, it looks like b43 is barfing | | partway throug

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 12:15:34 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > So you volunteer to maintain bcm43xx? Fine. Thanks a lot. > > it's sad that you are trying to force testers to upgrade to your new > driver by threatening to unsupport the old driver. I dropped maintainance for bcm43xx over a year ago. S

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2007 02:12:25 Ray Lee wrote: > > Digging a little farther into it, it looks like b43 is barfing partway > > through init as the firmware file it's looking for has changed names. > > Perhaps that's the issue. I'll take a longer lo

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (eth0 is ethernet, eth1 doesn't exist -- usually it's the wireless.) > > > > `ifconfig` doesn't see eth1 or wlan0_rename. > > > > What else might I be doing wrong? > > I don't know. Try ifconfig -a Or tell udev to not crap up your device > names

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 02:12:25 Ray Lee wrote: > Digging a little farther into it, it looks like b43 is barfing partway > through init as the firmware file it's looking for has changed names. > Perhaps that's the issue. I'll take a longer look at this all > tomorrow. http://www.linuxwireless.o

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 01:55:50 Harvey Harrison wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 01:43 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > > Oh come on. b43 is more than a year old now. How long should we wait? > > Two or three? Forever? > > > > Any pointers to the advantages of b43? http://www.linuxwireless.org/e

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-13 Thread Larry Finger
Michael Buesch wrote: On Friday 14 December 2007 01:05:00 Ray Lee wrote: Okay, I had to modprobe rfkill-input and rfkill by hand, didn't realize that. Hopefully that'll be automatic soon. Regardless, upon doing so, and loading ssb and b43, it sees my card, but is still not fully functional. iwco

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-13 Thread Ray Lee
On Dec 13, 2007 4:43 PM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 14 December 2007 01:05:00 Ray Lee wrote: > > Okay, I had to modprobe rfkill-input and rfkill by hand, didn't > > realize that. Hopefully that'll be automatic soon. Regardless, upon > > doing so, and loading ssb and b43,

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-13 Thread Harvey Harrison
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 01:43 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > Oh come on. b43 is more than a year old now. How long should we wait? > Two or three? Forever? > Any pointers to the advantages of b43? Harvey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 14 December 2007 01:05:00 Ray Lee wrote: > Okay, I had to modprobe rfkill-input and rfkill by hand, didn't > realize that. Hopefully that'll be automatic soon. Regardless, upon > doing so, and loading ssb and b43, it sees my card, but is still not > fully functional. iwconfig sees: > > l

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-13 Thread Ray Lee
On Dec 13, 2007 5:45 AM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 13 December 2007 02:17:16 Ray Lee wrote: > > Uhm, hijacking the thread a bit here, but which driver is supposed to > > be supporting my 4309? Neither b43 nor b43legacy found my wireless, > > and I'm not seeing its PCI

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-13 Thread John W. Linville
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:11:32PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Thursday 13 December 2007 11:13:27 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > This driver is scheduled for removal, so I'd not touch it anymore to > > > > avoid the possibility to introduc

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Buesch
On Thursday 13 December 2007 02:17:16 Ray Lee wrote: > On Dec 12, 2007 4:48 PM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This driver is scheduled for removal, so I'd not touch it anymore > > to avoid the possibility to introduce a lastminute regression. > > The new drivers (b43 and b43legacy)

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Buesch
On Thursday 13 December 2007 11:13:27 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This driver is scheduled for removal, so I'd not touch it anymore to > > > avoid the possibility to introduce a lastminute regression. The new > > > drivers (b43 and b43legacy) have t

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This driver is scheduled for removal, so I'd not touch it anymore to > > avoid the possibility to introduce a lastminute regression. The new > > drivers (b43 and b43legacy) have this fixed (in a different way by > > completely removing it). > > W

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel Walker
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 01:48 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Wednesday 12 December 2007 09:00:03 Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > --- > > drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_debugfs.c | 30 > > - > > 1 file changed

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-12 Thread Ray Lee
On Dec 12, 2007 4:48 PM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This driver is scheduled for removal, so I'd not touch it anymore > to avoid the possibility to introduce a lastminute regression. > The new drivers (b43 and b43legacy) have this fixed (in a different > way by completely removing

Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-12 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 09:00:03 Daniel Walker wrote: > > Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_debugfs.c | 30 > - > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) > > Index: linux-2.6.23/drivers/net/

[PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

2007-12-12 Thread Daniel Walker
Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_debugfs.c | 30 - 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.23/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_debugfs.c