From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: Please pull 'upstream' branch of wireless-2.6 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:32:00 +0200 Message-ID: <200606281832.01108.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <20060626212547.GE30706@tuxdriver.com> <200606281634.24160.mb@bu3sch.de> <44A2A872.3050905@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "John W. Linville" , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:7391 "EHLO bu3sch.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751350AbWF1QcK (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:32:10 -0400 To: Larry Finger In-Reply-To: <44A2A872.3050905@lwfinger.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 28 June 2006 18:04, Larry Finger wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > > > It appears to be an older card. There are quite some > > special codepaths for this, I think. > > Yes, I bought this card before the G specifications were finalized. Oh, very interresting. I did not know that these old cards were pre-standard. > For the past 12 hours, I have been printing the delay time for the cases where it took more > than 2 passes through the loop. There have been single instances of 3 and 4 usec; otherwise the > delay is much longer, with the largest delay at 750 usec. The long delays are always found during > scanning, associating, and authenticating. I use WPA with wpa_supplicant. Oh, well. Forget it all. I remembered the code wrong. At the moment I looked at the code and it has the opposite semantics. It loops to wait for the READY bit to appear. Well, I would say your old device simply takes this long to disable and there is no bug. Oh, well... > One other little problem. If I do an ifdown/ifup sequence without unloading the bcm43xx module, I > get a failure of the assert(bcm->mac_suspended >= 0) at the beginning of bcm43xx_mac_suspend. Unrelated known bug. I will do a patch, soon. -- Greetings Michael.