From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:35:04 -0400 Message-ID: <20060911203458.GD19326@tuxdriver.com> References: <45021D4A.6040805@lwfinger.net> <20060909152305.GA27080@tuxdriver.com> <4502E62B.5060601@lwfinger.net> <20060911192846.GB19326@tuxdriver.com> <4505C005.2070302@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Stefano Brivio , Michael Buesch , Broadcom Linux Return-path: To: Larry Finger Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4505C005.2070302-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@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 Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:59:01PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > >Also, if you could just use "---" instead of a long line of "======", > >I think I would have to do less manual processing...thanks! > > Sorry about the === rather than ---. Is that documented somewhere? Not too explicitly, but I think Andrew mentions it in "The Perfect Patch": http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt While you are looking, you might review Jeff's version of the same idea: http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html > I use quilt to generate the patches, but will check them with git in > the future. It's not terribly critical, but it does slow me down if I have to regenerate patches, edit comments, change subject lines, etc. > In addition to the items listed above, my list for wireless-2.6 includes: > > 8/15 bcm43xx: >1G and 64bit DMA support > 8/15 bcm43xx: re-add bcm43xx_rng_init() call > 8/15 Add Larry Finger to bcm43xx MAINTAINERS > 8/16 bcm43xx-softmac: optimization of DMA bitfields. > 8/19 bcm43xx: return correct hard_start_xmit error code] I have all of these in the upstream branch of wireless-2.6. BTW, I have _not_ applied the Init patch yet. But I still have it, so I'll just combine that w/ the new patch you posted this afternoon. > 9/10 Change PHY initialization to match updated clean-room specs The archives show this as being posted today at ~2:00pm EDT, but I seem to have missed it? Could you resend it just to me? > I hope I'm not causing too much trouble while I learn the ropes. We all go through it -- if you start feeding another maintainer, he/she will probably have other quirks too... :-) Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org