Re: IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver and GPL

[Charles Majola <chmj@rootcore.co.za>]

Ben Martel wrote:
> Y'all,
>
> I have had a look at the changes to the 2.6.1{6,7} kernel to do with 
> the buffering and I think that this driver will benefit greatly from 
> the changes away from the flip/flop scheme.
>
> When Steve and I originally wrote the driver it always seemed to be 
> limited throughput wise, due to the inefficient char handling it did.
>
> Good luck in the 'hacking it for 2.6.1{6,7} department' let me know if 
> I can help at all :)
>
> BTW: Can someone tell me the version that you are changing - I may 
> have a later version that fixes a problem with the V2 PCMCIA cards 
> from IPWireless/T-Mobile.
>

I have version 1.0.1 - 28 Mar 2004, working with the 2.6.15 kernel, with 
some minor changes I made.

--
chmj

>    ~benm
>
> Patrick McFarland wrote:
>> On Friday 23 June 2006 09:53, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> Ar Gwe, 2006-06-23 am 15:21 +0200, ysgrifennodd Charles Majola:
>>>> Alan, can you please give me pointers on the tty changes since 2.6.12?
>>> The newest kernels have a replacement set of tty receive functions that
>>> use a new buffering system.
>>>
>>> http://kerneltrap.org/node/5473
>>>
>>> covers the changes briefly. The internals of the buffering changes are
>>> quite complex because Paul did some rather neat things with SMP locking
>>> but the API is nice and simple.
>>>
>>> Its fairly easy to express the old API in terms of the new one if you
>>> are doing compat wrappers as well
>>
>> Actually, its rather neat that something as 'simple' as tty still 
>> gets heavily hacked on every once in awhile.
>>
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