Queued patches

[Karl Relton]

Hi Solomon

Did Pavel's and Richard's proposed fixes get accepted?

http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2008-July/003853.html
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2008-August/003861.html

Currently Ubuntu Intrepid is shipping pre-releases using linux
2.6.27(-rcX) with broken prism drivers, most likely due to the issues
reported above.

Karl

[Pavel Roskin]

Post by Karl Relton
Hi Solomon
Did Pavel's and Richard's proposed fixes get accepted?
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2008-July/003853.html
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2008-August/003861.html

My patch was accepted, but Richard's patch wasn't, as far as I can tell
from the code.

Post by Karl Relton
Currently Ubuntu Intrepid is shipping pre-releases using linux
2.6.27(-rcX) with broken prism drivers, most likely due to the issues
reported above.

My patch was just a compile fix. I cannot imagine how it could have
possibly resulted in broken drivers shipped by a distro (i.e. as
compiled binaries). If the code compiles, my patch is not needed. It
the code doesn't compile, no binaries are produced.

[Richard Kennedy]

Post by Pavel Roskin

Post by Karl Relton
Hi Solomon
Did Pavel's and Richard's proposed fixes get accepted?
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2008-July/003853.html
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2008-August/003861.html

My patch was accepted, but Richard's patch wasn't, as far as I can tell
from the code.

Post by Karl Relton
Currently Ubuntu Intrepid is shipping pre-releases using linux
2.6.27(-rcX) with broken prism drivers, most likely due to the issues
reported above.

My patch was just a compile fix. I cannot imagine how it could have
possibly resulted in broken drivers shipped by a distro (i.e. as
compiled binaries). If the code compiles, my patch is not needed. It
the code doesn't compile, no binaries are produced.

2.6.27-rcX changed the initialisation of net device and the existing
prism code oops as it no longer setup the device correctly.

My patch changes the code to use the kernel provided alloc_netdev()
which does the right thing & should avoid any problems if netdev get
changed again in the future.

regards
Richard

[Karl Relton]

Post by Pavel Roskin

Post by Karl Relton
Currently Ubuntu Intrepid is shipping pre-releases using linux
2.6.27(-rcX) with broken prism drivers, most likely due to the issues
reported above.

My patch was just a compile fix. I cannot imagine how it could have
possibly resulted in broken drivers shipped by a distro (i.e. as
compiled binaries). If the code compiles, my patch is not needed. It
the code doesn't compile, no binaries are produced.

Sorry Pavel - didn't mean to malign you there. The point is that
currently Ubuntu has neither of these patches applied - which we know
(thanks to the work of yourself and Richard) is not good when the distro
is on a 2.6.27 kernel. In fact, as Richard says, without his patch we
get an oops.

I'm working at the Ubuntu end to get the incarnation of linux-wlan-ng
sorted.

Cheers
Karl

[Mark S. Mathews]

Hi Karl (and other thread participants),

Solomon and I are both currently completely overwhelmed with very
serious work and family responsibilities (have been for some months).

We apologize for the lack of attention.

This week is particularly bad. Please be patient, we'll address all
of your comments/concerns next week.

Thanks and regards,
-Mark

Post by Karl Relton
Hi Solomon
Did Pavel's and Richard's proposed fixes get accepted?
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2008-July/003853.html
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2008-August/003861.html
Currently Ubuntu Intrepid is shipping pre-releases using linux
2.6.27(-rcX) with broken prism drivers, most likely due to the issues
reported above.
Karl
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[Karl Relton]

Hi Mark

Thanks for notice. Hope all works out well for you!

Cheers
Karl

Post by Mark S. Mathews
Hi Karl (and other thread participants),
Solomon and I are both currently completely overwhelmed with very
serious work and family responsibilities (have been for some months).
We apologize for the lack of attention.
This week is particularly bad. Please be patient, we'll address all
of your comments/concerns next week.
Thanks and regards,
-Mark

Post by Karl Relton
Hi Solomon
Did Pavel's and Richard's proposed fixes get accepted?
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2008-July/003853.html
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2008-August/003861.html
Currently Ubuntu Intrepid is shipping pre-releases using linux
2.6.27(-rcX) with broken prism drivers, most likely due to the issues
reported above.
Karl
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Linux-wlan-devel mailing list
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-wlan-devel

Mark S. Mathews
AbsoluteValue Systems Web: http://www.linux-wlan.com
Melbourne, FL 32934 Phone: [phone]
USA Fax: [phone]

[Solomon Peachy]

Post by Karl Relton
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2008-July/003853.html
http://lists.linux-wlan.com/pipermail/linux-wlan-devel/2008-August/003861.html

Pavel's patch was merged a while back, and I just merged Richard's.

Sorry about being incommunicado lately; life's been pretty screwy.

I'll roll a new release as soon as I have confirmation that git head
works on 2.6.27.

- Solomon

[Karl Relton]

Post by Solomon Peachy
I'll roll a new release as soon as I have confirmation that git head
works on 2.6.27.

There are a few include file issues:

hfa384.c includes asm/semaphore.h
This is now to be found in linux/semaphore.h

prism2mgmt.c, prism2mib.c and prism2sta.c each include pcmia/version.h
which now no longer exists.

Also in hfa384.c, is asm/io.h really used at all. I've commented it out
to no ill effect!

Cheers
Karl