From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-d80211: Init, shutdown and restart fixes Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:44:45 -0400 Message-ID: <20060815154440.GD28544@tuxdriver.com> References: <200608142132.25398.mb@bu3sch.de> <44E1E6E6.9000804@lwfinger.net> <200608151730.26255.mb@bu3sch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Johannes Berg , bcm43xx-dev-0fE9KPoRgkgATYTw5x5z8w@public.gmane.org, Larry Finger Return-path: To: Michael Buesch Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200608151730.26255.mb-fseUSCV1ubazQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: bcm43xx-dev-bounces-0fE9KPoRgkgATYTw5x5z8w@public.gmane.org Errors-To: bcm43xx-dev-bounces-0fE9KPoRgkgATYTw5x5z8w@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:30:25PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2006 17:23, Larry Finger wrote: > > Michael Buesch wrote: > > > This fixes various bugs in the init and shutdown code > > > that would lead to lockups and crashes. > > > This is best reproducable by receiving a timeout from > > > the netdev watchdog. > > > > Is a similar bug likely to be the cause of the netdev watchdog timeouts in > > bcm43xx-softmac? If so, will there be a patch for wireless-2.6? > > I don't know why the _timeouts_ itself happen, but maybe the > lockup and crash bugs are in bcm43xx-softmac, too. > I think it should be actually trivial to port this to bcm43xx-softmac. > Care to do this, Larry? Actually, this leads to a bigger question. I noticed Michael pleading his support dilemma w.r.t. supporting both wireless-2.6 and wirless-dev. I'm sure he now regrets the "stunt" of trying to support both at the same time... :-) Anyway, it would seem like many of these fixes would be readily ported between the trees. It seems like we need someone to take-on this (admittedly thankless) maintainence task from now until the new stack merges into wireless-2.6. Larry, you seem like a great candidate for this role. Are you interested? If not, is there someone else in the bcm43xx camp that would oblige us? Thanks in advance! John P.S. FWIW, I definitely thank Michael for his work supporting both stack to date. I think the dscape stack would be much farther behind w/o the users enabled by the bcm43xx-dscape driver. -- John W. Linville linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org