From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for 3.10 00/16] brcmfmac: firmware-signalling fixes
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 14:44:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130529184426.GC8770@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1369845546-31950-1-git-send-email-arend@broadcom.com>
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 06:38:50PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> This is a somewhat large series and reading the message of the announcement
> of v3.10-rc3 I think it is good to give our story up front. Firmware-signalling
> is a new feature merged in for 3.10, which was a major overhaul of the transmit
> path in brcmfmac. During and after the merge window we still have some blanks
> in our test coverage and further testing revealed issues with P2P, TDLS, and
> power-saving clients in AP mode. These issues have been fixed in this series.
>
> As said this series is intended for 3.10 and applies to the master branch of
> the wireless repository.
>
> Arend van Spriel (6):
> brcmfmac: allow firmware-signal tlv to be longer than specified
> brcmfmac: remove fifo bitfield from brcmf_skbuff_cb::if_flags
> brcmfmac: rework credit pickup to assure consistent handling
> brcmfmac: explicitly indicate sk_buff is sent upon request credit
> brcmfmac: reducing debug logging in firmware-signalling code
> brcmfmac: Sent TIM information in case of data available.
>
> Hante Meuleman (10):
> brcmfmac: Take bus flowcontrol at credit mgmt into account.
> brcmfmac: On bus flow control use fw signalling or netif.
> brcmfmac: For FW signalling it is necessary to track gen bit.
> brcmfmac: Correct creditmap when credit borrowing is active.
> brcmfmac: Find correct MAC descriptor in case of TDLS.
> brcmfmac: fix invalid ifp lookup in firmware-signalling
> brcmfmac: Accept only first creditmap event.
> brcmfmac: Signalling header push and pull on logic places.
> brcmfmac: Fix endless loop when brcmf_fws_commit_skb fails.
> brcmfmac: Simplify counting transit count.
>
> drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd.h | 2 +
> .../net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_linux.c | 21 +-
> drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/dhd_sdio.c | 2 +-
> drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.c | 639 ++++++++++----------
> drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fwsignal.h | 1 +
> drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/usb.c | 8 +
> 6 files changed, 340 insertions(+), 333 deletions(-)
Grr...I'll merge it, and pass your plea on to Dave. But, there can't
be any more batches like this for 3.10...
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-29 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-29 16:38 [PATCH for 3.10 00/16] brcmfmac: firmware-signalling fixes Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:38 ` [PATCH for 3.10 01/16] brcmfmac: allow firmware-signal tlv to be longer than specified Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:38 ` [PATCH for 3.10 02/16] brcmfmac: remove fifo bitfield from brcmf_skbuff_cb::if_flags Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:38 ` [PATCH for 3.10 03/16] brcmfmac: Take bus flowcontrol at credit mgmt into account Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:38 ` [PATCH for 3.10 04/16] brcmfmac: rework credit pickup to assure consistent handling Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:38 ` [PATCH for 3.10 05/16] brcmfmac: explicitly indicate sk_buff is sent upon request credit Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:38 ` [PATCH for 3.10 06/16] brcmfmac: reducing debug logging in firmware-signalling code Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:38 ` [PATCH for 3.10 07/16] brcmfmac: On bus flow control use fw signalling or netif Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:38 ` [PATCH for 3.10 08/16] brcmfmac: For FW signalling it is necessary to track gen bit Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:38 ` [PATCH for 3.10 09/16] brcmfmac: Correct creditmap when credit borrowing is active Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:39 ` [PATCH for 3.10 10/16] brcmfmac: Sent TIM information in case of data available Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:39 ` [PATCH for 3.10 11/16] brcmfmac: Find correct MAC descriptor in case of TDLS Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:39 ` [PATCH for 3.10 12/16] brcmfmac: fix invalid ifp lookup in firmware-signalling Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:39 ` [PATCH for 3.10 13/16] brcmfmac: Accept only first creditmap event Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:39 ` [PATCH for 3.10 14/16] brcmfmac: Signalling header push and pull on logic places Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:39 ` [PATCH for 3.10 15/16] brcmfmac: Fix endless loop when brcmf_fws_commit_skb fails Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:39 ` [PATCH for 3.10 16/16] brcmfmac: Simplify counting transit count Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 16:47 ` [PATCH for 3.10 00/16] brcmfmac: firmware-signalling fixes Arend van Spriel
2013-05-29 18:44 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2013-05-29 19:23 ` Arend van Spriel
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