From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
jbenc@suse.cz, flamingice@sourmilk.net
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/10] Port of bcm43xx from softmac to mac80211
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:31:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B24D4D.5020904@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1186088678.2931.10.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 11:30 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> I was hoping this would be your response, but I had to make the
>> effort. I'll wait for a couple of days to see if anyone else has any
>> comments and send it on to Linville and hope it ends up in -mm fairly
>> soon. It _DOES_ work on the hardware.
>
> My experience is that mac80211 is broken w.r.t IPv6 -- it receives its
> own packets. It would be suboptimal for me if the softmac version of
> bcm43xx were to go away before that got fixed.
>
This will go into -mm. I hope that it gets plenty of testing, in fact, I hope you grab the patch set
and make a trial of your own. If this driver is broken with IPv6, I want to know.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-02 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-02 15:53 [RFC 0/10] Port of bcm43xx from softmac to mac80211 Larry Finger
2007-08-02 16:07 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-02 16:30 ` Larry Finger
2007-08-02 21:04 ` David Woodhouse
2007-08-02 21:06 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-02 21:31 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2007-08-02 22:30 ` mac80211 IPv6 problems Daniel Drake
2007-08-02 22:36 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-02 22:38 ` David Miller
2007-08-02 22:46 ` David Woodhouse
2007-08-03 0:55 ` John W. Linville
2007-08-03 8:02 ` Michael Wu
2007-08-06 17:05 ` John W. Linville
2007-08-08 3:19 ` Michael Wu
2007-08-11 6:29 ` Paul TBBle Hampson
2007-08-17 0:52 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-17 13:49 ` John W. Linville
2007-08-19 2:45 ` Paul TBBle Hampson
2007-08-03 10:40 ` David Woodhouse
2007-08-02 16:45 ` [RFC 0/10] Port of bcm43xx from softmac to mac80211 Erik Mouw
2007-08-02 17:25 ` Larry Finger
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