[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 branch, but it is frozen to when I requested

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 as well as the the BCM43xx driver based upon that code. I

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

2006-01-30 Thread John W. Linville
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 it now. Sorry for being slow! John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [GIT PULL] bcm43xx: Update B6PHY initialization

2006-02-09 Thread John W. Linville
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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 W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2006-06-05 Thread John W. Linville
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/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

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

2006-07-06 Thread John W. Linville
with multiple cores (APHY) (untested) * Fix controller restart breakage. * Make used wireless core (phymode) selectable at runtime. * Well, few others. Don't remember :) Since your subject includes RFT, I'm NOT going to apply this. Please correct me if your desire is otherwise. Thanks, John -- John W

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

2006-07-27 Thread John W. Linville
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 MAC while

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
: 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-netdevm=115137403631920w=2 After re-reading that thread, I realized that Jeff had

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 clear, 'upstream' not 'upstream-fixes

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

2006-08-15 Thread John W. Linville
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
=115075858220477w=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 Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman

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

2006-08-15 Thread John W. Linville
-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
. 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://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo

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

2006-09-09 Thread John W. Linville
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 -- John W. Linville [EMAIL

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 === rather than ---. Is that documented somewhere? Not too

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

2006-09-12 Thread John W. Linville
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Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-softmac: improve wrong firmware message

2006-09-14 Thread John W. Linville
- 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 himself... :-) John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev

Re: 1GB RAM bug on AMD 64bit

2006-09-14 Thread John W. Linville
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Re: bcm43xx-SoftMac in 2.6.18.1

2006-10-17 Thread John W. Linville
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

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

2006-11-03 Thread John W. Linville
applied them last night w/o incident. They are available in the current wireless-dev. 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 to allow specification of interface name prefix

2007-02-26 Thread John W. Linville
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-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de

Re: Assertion failed in ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate

2007-03-02 Thread John W. Linville
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 -0500 [PATCH] softmac: avoid assert in ieee80211softmac_wx_get_rate Unconfigured bcm43xx device can hit

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

2007-03-12 Thread John W. Linville
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 tried the mac80211 version? Does it still have the same crash? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

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. David, have you tried the mac80211 version

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 tried the mac80211 version? Does it still

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

2007-03-14 Thread John W. Linville
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 -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-21 Thread John W. Linville
as of yesterday. Presumably it should be in the next -mm. 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

2007-03-25 Thread John W. Linville
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] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de

Re: combined on 2.6.20.3

2007-03-25 Thread John W. Linville
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-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman

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

2007-04-12 Thread John W. Linville
+XeeF4D8Zdi7GRjiZK3vAoqYZ78O8yNQ6bkAzpi1pKGhbffVx3bGd44Ok057V3PWVhsMjncGr5jMKiiAEQJRpDpKIB++oimQXCPHjGCxUQwesBr2V/yvL06CcBZKsupeD7hHAvo2CeVCLWCuSmcwiGM= Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:16:59 +1000 From: stevie.glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070329) To: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Please pull

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 that the code

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 2007 20:50, Larry Finger wrote: @@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ void

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

2007-04-17 Thread John W. Linville
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 PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev

Re: Is mac80211 generally available for use with bcm43xx?

2007-05-03 Thread John W. Linville
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] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de

Re: Merging SSB upstream

2007-05-05 Thread John W. Linville
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? Trivial to fix if that's the only

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 Bcm43xx-dev

Re: bcm4301: A mac80211 driver using V3 firmware

2007-07-19 Thread John W. Linville
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
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 default extension. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev

Re: bcm4301: A mac80211 driver using V3 firmware

2007-07-20 Thread John W. Linville
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 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 2 that has phy-analog == 1

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

2007-07-26 Thread John W. Linville
== to !=. Instead of reverting the other, should it do the same thing as this? 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] Merge the Sonics Silicon Backplane subsystem

2007-07-27 Thread John W. Linville
, 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 PROTECTED] -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mac80211 IPv6 problems

2007-08-02 Thread John W. Linville
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 working properly. I hacked-up the (untested) patch below -- thoughts? --- From: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] mac80211

Re: mac80211 IPv6 problems

2007-08-06 Thread John W. Linville
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-originated multicast frames In STA mode

Re: bcm4301 - bcm43xx-legacy

2007-08-09 Thread John W. Linville
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-dev@lists.berlios.de https

wireless-dev rebased, new rebasing policies

2007-08-14 Thread John W. Linville
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 wouldn't hurt either. Questions? Complaints? Comments? Thanks, John -- John W. Linville

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) memcpy(dst, hdr

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

2007-08-17 Thread John W. Linville
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] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev

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

2007-08-21 Thread John W. Linville
.\n, path); + return err; } if ((*fw)-size sizeof(struct b43_fw_header)) goto err_format; -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de

Re: ALERT: firmware change for b43

2007-08-22 Thread John W. Linville
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: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: fix b43 compilation

2007-08-22 Thread John W. Linville
. 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] b43, b43legacy: Fix inconsistency between branches 'b43' and 'everything' in wireless-dev

2007-08-23 Thread John W. Linville
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: Updated Status on b43 driver and Fedora 7

2007-08-27 Thread John W. Linville
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 kernel.org I see changes from 24'th

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

2007-09-17 Thread John W. Linville
://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 correct. The first one was without a commit message

Re: [PATCH] b43: Leds spinlock SMP compilefix

2007-10-03 Thread John W. Linville
led_index); b43_write16(dev, B43_MMIO_GPIO_CONTROL, ctl); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(wl-leds_lock, flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(wl-leds_lock, flags); } /* Callback from the LED subsystem. */ -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 4311: trouble with Fedora 8 Test 3

2007-10-10 Thread John W. Linville
: cat /sys/bus/ssb/devices/ssb0\:0/uevent I suspect that your device's core is too new to be supported. dmesg does show this error: ssb: rev 6000 WARNING: at drivers/ssb/main.c:889 ssb_tmslow_reject_bitmask() (Not tainted) Technically a warning, not an error. :-) John -- John W

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
. 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.

2007-10-19 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. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.24 patches for b43legacy

2007-10-19 Thread John W. Linville
. I sent the next-to-last one to Jeff last night as a fix. The rest will be sent to Jeff after 2.6.24-rc1 is released, in anticipation of inclusion into 2.6.25. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev

Re: b43, b43legacy questions

2007-11-07 Thread John W. Linville
-- it works for both of mine. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Help with wireless on Fedora 8

2007-11-09 Thread John W. Linville
wireless bits that are a month or so old. You may want to have him try these kernels: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=23734 Those at least have wireless bits that are up-to-date w/ wireless-2.6. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] b43: silence a bogus gcc warning

2007-11-10 Thread John W. Linville
/wireless/b43/debugfs.c:355: warning: ‘ret’ may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isn't this what uninitialized_var() is for? -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] ssb: Fix compilation errors in ssb

2007-11-16 Thread John W. Linville
that in the b44, yet. I did a git pull yesterday and the sprom r3 and r4 changes were in wireless-2.6/everything. And now, so is this one. I'll probably roll it into the main ssb sprom patch before actually sending it to Jeff. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

schedule bcm43xx removal for 2.6.26 -- Re: [PATCH v3] remove bcm43xx

2007-11-21 Thread John W. Linville
in MAINTAINERS and add an entry to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt with a When of 2.6.26? I think that should give everyone sufficient notice...? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de

[PATCH] bcm43xx: mark as obsolete and schedule for removal

2007-11-21 Thread John W. Linville
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |9 + MAINTAINERS|2 +- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation

[PATCH v2] bcm43xx: mark as obsolete and schedule for removal

2007-11-21 Thread John W. Linville
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Amended based on suggestions from Stefano... Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |9 + MAINTAINERS|2 +- drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/Kconfig |9 ++--- 3 files changed, 16

Re: mac80211 regression: doesn't associate automatically

2007-11-22 Thread John W. Linville
to an associate now trigger. I would have to advise distros and users to always set it last in the wireless init, just before running dhclient or whatever. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev

Re: My Laptop

2007-12-13 Thread John W. Linville
? At this moment there are no wireless bits in wireless-2.6 that are not in the latest Fedora kernels in Koji. The last one I built is here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=27585 Hth! John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2007-12-14 Thread John W. Linville
removal. In the meantime hopefully every distribution will have or obtain a working udev configuration. If things don't work out as planned then we will re-evaluate. Let's stop this now please. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx

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

2007-12-15 Thread John W. Linville
and forth between them. Given a functioning udev configuration, the persistent naming even works so that your device stays as 'eth1' when switching to and fro bcm43xx. I really think everyone is overstating the problem. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Lost wireless device?

2007-12-18 Thread John W. Linville
interpreter. If you boot with acpi=off on the kernel command line, does the device either always show-up or never show-up between the various kernels? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https

Re: b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon

2008-01-06 Thread John W. Linville
on all the devices currently supported by b43? Or are we looking at another b43legacy type of situation? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx

Re: b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon

2008-01-06 Thread John W. Linville
fwpostfix value... John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon

2008-01-06 Thread John W. Linville
for fwpostfix... John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: b43 will need a firmware upgrade soon

2008-01-06 Thread John W. Linville
don't confuse suggestions (intended to be helpful) with complaints. 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] b43: Remove PIO support

2008-01-10 Thread John W. Linville
. b43 PIO support is dead and unused code. You merged this patch, but After applying this patch please do git rm drivers/net/wireless/b43/pio.h git rm drivers/net/wireless/b43/pio.c to remove the main PIO support code. forgot this. You're right -- thanks for the reminder! -- John W

Re: iwlist shows one AP few times

2008-02-16 Thread John W. Linville
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Re: bcm4311 + 2.6.24 + patch gives blinking wireless LED

2008-03-14 Thread John W. Linville
it but not had opportunity to test it yet. Is this new enough to work? This is exactly what you want. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx

Re: bcm4311 + 2.6.24 + patch gives blinking wireless LED

2008-03-14 Thread John W. Linville
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:49:02AM -0700, Larry Finger wrote: John W. Linville wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 05:26:57PM +0530, Abhijit Hoskeri wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/wireless-testing$ git checkout --track -b everything origin/everything git checkout: updating paths

Re: [PATCH] ssb-pcmcia: IRQ and DMA related fixes

2008-04-01 Thread John W. Linville
. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] commit ffc7689ddae5cbe12bde437ae0f2b386d568b5cd Author: Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Feb 20 19:08:10 2008 +0100 ssb: Add support for 8bit register access This adds

Re: [PATCH] b43: Fix some TX/RX locking issues

2008-05-01 Thread John W. Linville
On Friday 25 April 2008, Michael Buesch wrote: This fixes some TX/RX related locking issues. With this patch applied, some of the PHY transmission errors are fixed. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- John, this is for 2.6.26. -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [patch 11/16] b43: Fix some TX/RX locking issues

2008-05-08 Thread John W. Linville
locking issues. With this patch applied, some of the PHY transmission errors are fixed. ACK -- 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: Fix typo in firmware file name for 802.11 cores with rev 13

2008-05-15 Thread John W. Linville
it is a bug in 2.6.25 and .26, it seems to have zero effect on the performance of the device and can be delayed. Would you prefer to have it in 2.6.26 just in case? Or might that cause a problem somehow? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] b43legacy: Fix controller restart crash

2008-05-28 Thread John W. Linville
/debug/b43legacy/phy*/restart rmmod b43legacy It should not crash anymore at the rmmod (actually the restart should also hang in b43legacy, as it has a deadlock, which this patch also fixes). Anyone get a chance to test this one? John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [stable] [PATCH stable] b43: Fix controller restart crash

2008-06-09 Thread John W. Linville
3bf0a32e22fedc0b46443699db2d61ac2a883ac4. Hth! 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 stable] b43: Fix noise calculation WARN_ON

2008-06-14 Thread John W. Linville
. This patch is upstream in John Linville's wireless-testing.git tree as commit 86ef1ae07289c9f0aa1aa310d43653e513e6f124 ...and will probably be 98a3b2fe435ae76170936c14f5c9e6a87548e3ef in linux-2.6.git. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx

Re: [PATCH stable] b43: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in DMA code

2008-06-14 Thread John W. Linville
. This is a cut-down version of 3ab4b64c46784ed83f213bf4e1b51d9c55858600 which is upstream in John Linville's wireless-testing.git tree. ...which will probably be 028118a5f09a9c807e6b43e2231efdff9f224c74 in linux-2.6.git John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] b43legacy: Fix failure in rate-adjustment mechanism

2008-09-06 Thread John W. Linville
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 08:41:05PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: On Saturday 06 September 2008 20:34:02 Larry Finger wrote: A coding error present since b43legacy was incorporated into the kernel has prevented the driver from using the rate-setting mechanism of mac80211. The driver has been

Re: [PATCH V2] b43legacy: Fix failure in rate-adjustment mechanism

2008-09-08 Thread John W. Linville
become more strict about requiring regressions only after the merge window, that effectively enforces the regressions only rule on the -stable trees as well. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev

Re: [PATCH V2] b43legacy: Fix failure in rate-adjustment mechanism

2008-09-10 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:40:44AM -0600, Otto Solares wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 04:54:59PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:22:43AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: Greg KH wrote: Bug fixes, not new features, it's pretty simple :) Just bug fixes, or does

Re: Regression in 2.6.27-rcX caused by commit bc19d6e0b74ef03a3baf035412c95192b54dfc6f

2008-09-17 Thread John W. Linville
series many times. I'm sorry that it snuck-up on you but it was on the list for quite a while. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev

Re: Can't connect to AP with hidden essid with 2.6.27-rc6

2008-09-18 Thread John W. Linville
://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA), which will get your system to provide active scanning. Hmmm...does the user have CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY=y? That is supposed to enable identical behavior to what we had before w/o requiring CRDA. John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: B43 STILL randomly and silently dropping connections...

2008-10-22 Thread John W. Linville
* -- 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. LinvilleLinux should be at the core [EMAIL PROTECTED] of your

Re: [RFC] b43: rework rfkill code

2008-12-17 Thread John W. Linville
. Based on the above, I'm dropping this patch. Please submit a non-regressing version! :-) John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi...@tuxdriver.com of your literate lifestyle. ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list

Re: opensource firmware

2009-01-09 Thread John W. Linville
In the firmware website you can find more information about the fw algorithm, its interaction with Broadcom hardware and other information that we discovered as we were writing it. I hereby declare this to be Fully Awesome! (TM) John -- John W. LinvilleLinux should be at the core linvi

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