From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Joseph Jezak <josejx@gentoo.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix typo in B5PHY init specifications
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:53:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070312145309.GB8878@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F55452.3000704@gentoo.org>
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:23:30AM -0400, Joseph Jezak wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:30 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> >> There was an error in the B5PHY init specifications.
> >
> > This patch doesn't fix the machine check in bcm43xx_phy_initb5 which
> > Pavel Roskin and I reported a couple of weeks ago. To get rid of that
> > crash, I still have to revert an earlier 'spec update' patch
> > (740ac4fb08866d702be90f167665d03759bd27d0).
> >
>
> Yeah, the issue is that the Rev1 cards have to be init'd with g mode
> off. I'm not sure anyone has picked up this fix yet. The relevant
> 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
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-12 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-02 17:30 [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix typo in B5PHY init specifications Larry Finger
2007-03-12 7:53 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-12 13:23 ` Joseph Jezak
2007-03-12 14:53 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-03-12 15:16 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-12 17:42 ` Larry Finger
2007-03-12 17:48 ` John W. Linville
2007-03-12 18:30 ` Larry Finger
2007-03-12 17:46 ` John W. Linville
2007-03-12 18:48 ` Larry Finger
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