Pavel Roskin wrote:

Thanks for the feedback. I knew it wasn't ready, but I appreciate your comments.
> 
> Just a quick feedback on that package.
> 
> Please don't include Module.symvers, your version is not useful for
> anyone else.  It will be generated is needed.

Done.

> I'm getting a compile error:
> /home/proski/src/bcm43xx-softmac-sa/bcm43xx/bcm43xx.h:896:3: error:
> #error "Using neither DMA nor PIO? Confused..."
> 
> I think the best solution would be to define both 
> CONFIG_BCM43XX_DMA and CONFIG_BCM43XX_PIO.  You make want to make it
> configurable, but then don't compile bcm43xx_pio.c and bcm43xx_dma.c
> unconditionally.

I made PIO to be conditional and fixed it for conditional compilation of 
bcm43xx_pio.c. DMA mode is 
always turned on.

> The debugfs requirement seems to defeat the whole purpose of the
> standalone distribution.

It is conditional and now turned off.

> BCM43xx_NR_LOGGED_XMITSTATUS is defined only if CONFIG_BCM43XX_DEBUG is
> defined, but bcm43xx_debugfs.c uses it unconditionally.

That was a type in the makefile.

> There may be more compile problems, but I gave up at this point.
> 
> Speaking of the build system, you may want to have a warning in case if
> anything that is compiled as a module (either bcm43xx or softmac) is
> already available and linked into the kernel.  Make sure the checks
> don't affect "make clean" and similar maintenance commands.

I'm not sure how to do this, but will do some more investigation.

There is a new version on the FTP site. I would appreciate seeing if that will 
work for you.

Larry


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