Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Friday 14 December 2007 02:12:25 Ray Lee wrote:
> Digging a little farther into it, it looks like b43 is barfing partway
> through init as the firmware file it's looking for has changed names.
> Perhaps that's the issue. I'll take a longer look at this all
> tomorrow.

http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#firmwareinstallation

> Well, it only hit the main kernel October 10th. That means no final
> point release of the kernel.org kernel has even had it included! So
> testing-wise, you still haven't hit the hordes yet. Scheduling a
> removal of bcm43xx (as painful as that code is [*]), seems either
> premature or very optimistic. So, how about scheduling the removal
> once you get a feel for the bug reports that'll come in once 2.6.24 is
> released.

So you volunteer to maintain bcm43xx? Fine. Thanks a lot.

>    [*] Yeah, even as a user the code is painful. It *still* locks my
> keyboard if I happen to disable the wireless while it's scanning. The
> sooner bcm43xx is dead, the better. But b43 is quite obviously not a
> full replacement for everyone.

I'm pretty sure it is.
Please carefully read the instructions on
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
especially for firmware installation.
It will work very well.

-- 
Greetings Michael.