From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932278AbWG3Ley (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:34:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932277AbWG3Ley (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:34:54 -0400 Received: from mail.trixing.net ([87.230.125.58]:11924 "EHLO ds666.l4x.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932278AbWG3Lex (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:34:53 -0400 Message-ID: <44CC993B.6070309@l4x.org> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:34:19 +0200 From: Jan Dittmer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Garrett CC: Pavel Machek , Jirka Lenost Benc , kernel list , ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com References: <20060730104042.GE1920@elf.ucw.cz> <20060730112827.GA25540@srcf.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20060730112827.GA25540@srcf.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.3 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jdi@l4x.org Subject: Re: ipw3945 status X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:42:28 +0200) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on ds666.l4x.org) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthew Garrett schrieb: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:40:42PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > >>I'm unfortunate enough to have x60 with ipw card. Card works okay, but >>driver is 16K LoC and needs binary daemon (ugh). Plus, it lives as an >>external module... > > > I have a mostly working replacement for the binary daemon, but it causes > the firmware to crash at the point where it triggers an association. If > anyone's keen on trying to figure out what's up, I'll clean up the code > and stick it somewhere. Why not get rid of the daemon like bsd did [0]? Otherwise in 5 years you'll have 42 daemons running which communicate with the firmware of various devices, each having a different inter- face. Jan [0] http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650