Loïc Minier wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008, Amit Kucheria wrote: >> So the issue here is that -mobile team is upset that a newer ath5k >> cannot be shipped in the default kernel. > > Hmm no, we want working wifi; we don't want ath5k in particular. Newer > ath5k if it fixes wifi (which I'm told it does) is fine, but madwifi > has been working reliably for us too, and we would have been happy with > madwifi as well. > > bug #284354 is about the two drivers being loaded at the same time > which is completely wrong on its own. > [snip] > > So, you've looked into updating ath5k before release, that's not > possible, I propose the following best effort measures: > - kernel team continues looking into fixing ath5k in linux for Q1U / > WPA as a SRU > - we document the issue in the release notes, with known workarounds > (either blacklisting madwifi or ath5k, or installing lbm's ath5k) > - we provide linux-backports-modules as an installable .deb on the > images, at least the mobile images, as to allow the release notes to > give an easy networkless recipe to get wifi working (sudo gdebi > /path/to/lbm.deb); this last idea is one by Oliver, thanks! > > > I also highly recommend that the kernel team looks at preventing > multiple drivers for the same PCI id to be selected. Having ath5k and > madwifi claim the same PCI ids and racing to get loaded, or having both > of them loaded is completely broken and needs to be blocked ASAP. > > Cheers,
Given the timeframe remaining, this looks sane and sensible to me, Pete and Amit, what are your thoughts? Cheers, David -- David Mandala <davidm at canonical dot com> http://www.canonical.com/ Public Key id: 45B2D952 Murphy TX, 75094 +1.214.774.2569 O +1.972.693.4007 C -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
