[ath9k-devel] ath9k-devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 6

[Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 01/10/15 03:00, ??? wrote:
> Hi Arend
> My development environment is LINUX 2.26.31 Kernel, and I could not use
> new version kernel (The whole project work in Kernel 2.26.31, and the
> 2.26.31 is provided by my device manufactuer, I had no power to update
> to new kernel). Could you give a suggestion how to test your patch in
> LINUX 2.26.31? I am new to LINUX.

I see. Well, you could grab this backports package [1] and apply the 
patch there. There is a twiki [2] containing info how to build, etc.

Regards,
Arend

[1] 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/stable/v3.19-rc1/backports-3.19-rc1-1.tar.xz
[2] https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/

> Thanks,
> David
> ------------------ Original ------------------
> *From: * "Arend van Spriel"<arend@broadcom.com>;
> *Date: * Fri, Jan 9, 2015 06:01 PM
> *To: * "???"<ytj@nethdv.com>;
> *Cc: * "ath9k-devel"<ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org>;
> *Subject: * Re: ath9k-devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 6
> On 01/09/15 02:54, ??? wrote:
>  > Hi Arend,
>  > I had ATH9k hardware, my wireless device is WLE350NX, it is AR9580 chip.
>  > Please send me your code to test!
>  > I am new to LINUX.
>
> Ok. The patch can be found on patchwork [1]. That page contains download
> links to get the patch. _mbox_ link can be used with 'git am' command.
> _patch_ link can be used with 'patch' command.
>
> Regards,
> Arend
>
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5544621/
>
>  > Regards,
>  > David Yang
>  > ------------------ Original ------------------
>  > *From: * "ath9k-devel-request"<ath9k-devel-request@lists.ath9k.org>;
>  > *Date: * Thu, Jan 8, 2015 07:00 PM
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>  > *Subject: * ath9k-devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 6
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>  > 1. Re: [PATCH] ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile()
>  > helper for seq_file entries (Kalle Valo)
>  > 2. Re: [PATCH] ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile()
>  > helper for seq_file entries (Sujith Manoharan)
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>  >
>  > Message: 1
>  > Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 20:05:00 +0200
>  > From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
>  > Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath: ath9k: use
>  > debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries
>  > To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
>  > Cc: ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org, linux-wireless
>  > <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
>  > Message-ID: <87bnmapiur.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
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>  >
>  > Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> writes:
>  >
>  > > Use the helper to get rid of the file operations per debugfs file. The
>  > > device driver data contains struct ieee80211_hw pointer and the
>  > > struct ath9k_softc pointer is assigned to ieee80211_hw::priv so it can
>  > > be accessed in the seq_file read operation.
>  > >
>  > > Cc: ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org
>  > > Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
>  > > ---
>  > > Hi Kalle,
>  > >
>  > > This patch was reverted in the driver-core repository as I overlooked
>  > > the use of driver data and caused ath9k driver to crash. I believe this
>  > > revised patch properly uses it now although I have no ath9k hardware to
>  > > test this. So I hope some ath9k developers out there can give this
> patch
>  > > a run for its money. It compiles and no checkpatch or sparse warnings.
>  > >
>  > > The patch applies to the master branch of the wireless-drivers-next
>  > > repository.
>  >
>  > Can someone with ath9k hardware test this, please? I'm hesitant to apply
>  > this without testing.
>  >
>  > --
>  > Kalle Valo
>  >
>  >
>  > ------------------------------
>  >
>  > Message: 2
>  > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 08:49:00 +0530
>  > From: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
>  > Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] ath: ath9k: use
>  > debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries
>  > To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
>  > Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
>  > ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org, linux-wireless
>  > <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
>  > Message-ID: <21677.63268.657151.679992@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
>  > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>  >
>  > > Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> writes:
>  > >
>  > > > Use the helper to get rid of the file operations per debugfs
> file. The
>  > > > device driver data contains struct ieee80211_hw pointer and the
>  > > > struct ath9k_softc pointer is assigned to ieee80211_hw::priv so
> it can
>  > > > be accessed in the seq_file read operation.
>  > > >
>  > > > Cc: ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org
>  > > > Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
>  >
>  > Thanks for the patch.
>  >
>  > > Can someone with ath9k hardware test this, please? I'm hesitant to
> apply
>  > > this without testing.
>  >
>  > I tested it and there were no crashes.
>  >
>  > Sujith
>  >
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