From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
b43-dev <b43-dev@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: b43 N PHY status report
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:30:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D10BA18.40606@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292923526.2577.53.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
On 12/21/2010 03:25 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> On-topic:
>
> Anyone working on or testing network device drivers should be using
> IPv6. IPv6 will exercise code paths and network behaviour that Legacy IP
> rarely does, in particular using multicast to do neighbour discovery.
> And on wireless networks when multicast will be handled differently by
> the AP, that makes more difference than on wired where it's mostly the
> MAC filters that get neglected.
>
> I've seen a number of broken drivers because their authors were only
> testing with Legacy IP and not IPv6.
>
> It's not hard to set up IPv6. Larry, if you need any pointers I'd be
> more than happy to help.
I have no problem setting it up. I disabled it mostly to reduce the number of
modules in a kernel recompile. It doesn't make much difference on either of my
multi-core boxes, but some of the lower-powered units already take hours to build.
I take your point, and will be reenabling IPv6.
Larry
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
b43-dev <b43-dev@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: b43 N PHY status report
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:30:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D10BA18.40606@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292923526.2577.53.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
On 12/21/2010 03:25 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> On-topic:
>
> Anyone working on or testing network device drivers should be using
> IPv6. IPv6 will exercise code paths and network behaviour that Legacy IP
> rarely does, in particular using multicast to do neighbour discovery.
> And on wireless networks when multicast will be handled differently by
> the AP, that makes more difference than on wired where it's mostly the
> MAC filters that get neglected.
>
> I've seen a number of broken drivers because their authors were only
> testing with Legacy IP and not IPv6.
>
> It's not hard to set up IPv6. Larry, if you need any pointers I'd be
> more than happy to help.
I have no problem setting it up. I disabled it mostly to reduce the number of
modules in a kernel recompile. It doesn't make much difference on either of my
multi-core boxes, but some of the lower-powered units already take hours to build.
I take your point, and will be reenabling IPv6.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-21 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-07 20:55 [PATCH 0/4] Make N-PHY support experimental Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 20:55 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 20:55 ` [PATCH 1/4] b43: N-PHY: silence warnings Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 20:55 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 20:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] b43: set TMS to work with current band width for N-PHY Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 20:55 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 21:08 ` Michael Büsch
2010-12-07 21:08 ` Michael Büsch
2010-12-09 14:12 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 14:12 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 14:13 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 14:13 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 14:19 ` Michael Büsch
2010-12-09 14:19 ` Michael Büsch
2010-12-09 14:23 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 14:23 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 14:28 ` Michael Büsch
2010-12-09 14:28 ` Michael Büsch
2010-12-09 14:41 ` Michael Büsch
2010-12-09 14:41 ` Michael Büsch
2010-12-07 20:55 ` [PATCH 3/4] b43: fix split of N-PHY devices into supported and not (based on PHY rev) Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 20:55 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 20:56 ` [PATCH 4/4] b43: rename config option for N-PHY, drop BROKEN Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 20:56 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-07 21:04 ` [PATCH 0/4] Make N-PHY support experimental Johannes Berg
2010-12-07 21:04 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-07 22:57 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-12-07 22:57 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-12-07 23:11 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-07 23:11 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-08 3:37 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-08 3:37 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-09 14:11 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 14:11 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 15:20 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-09 15:20 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-09 15:25 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-09 15:25 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-09 15:28 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 15:28 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 15:33 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-09 15:33 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-09 15:37 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 15:37 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 16:03 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-09 16:03 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-10 3:52 ` Jon Saul
2010-12-10 3:52 ` Jon Saul
2010-12-10 4:05 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-10 4:05 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-09 16:10 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 16:10 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-08 15:15 ` b43 N PHY status report Larry Finger
2010-12-08 15:15 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-10 16:57 ` Peter Stuge
2010-12-10 17:15 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-10 18:34 ` Peter Stuge
2010-12-10 18:44 ` Peter Stuge
2010-12-13 17:00 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-13 17:41 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-13 18:17 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-13 18:37 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-13 18:34 ` Peter Stuge
2010-12-13 18:43 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-10 18:22 ` Francesco Gringoli
2010-12-10 18:30 ` Francesco Gringoli
2010-12-10 18:30 ` Francesco Gringoli
2010-12-10 18:47 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-10 18:47 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-10 19:02 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-10 19:02 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-10 19:04 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-12-10 19:04 ` Gábor Stefanik
2010-12-10 19:08 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-10 19:08 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-21 9:25 ` David Woodhouse
2010-12-21 9:25 ` David Woodhouse
2010-12-21 9:30 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-21 9:30 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-21 14:30 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2010-12-21 14:30 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-10 18:53 ` Konstantinos Karantias
2010-12-10 19:00 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-10 19:00 ` Larry Finger
2010-12-09 14:09 ` [PATCH 0/4] Make N-PHY support experimental Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 14:09 ` Rafał Miłecki
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