From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: Merging SSB upstream Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 22:35:58 +0200 Message-ID: <200705072235.58587.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <200705060303.17594.mb@bu3sch.de> <463D4770.9060903@garzik.org> <1178556198.8350.2.camel@dhcp-10-12-136-115.broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jeff Garzik" , "John Linville" , "Andrew Morton" , linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, bcm43xx-dev-0fE9KPoRgkgATYTw5x5z8w@public.gmane.org To: "Gary Zambrano" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1178556198.8350.2.camel-opBMJL+S1+nCw/J+WP9nZ0NK2P1VvzQgpWgKQ6/u3Fg@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Monday 07 May 2007 18:43:18 Gary Zambrano wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 23:11 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Michael Buesch wrote: > > > So, now that mac80211 is merged upstream, I think it's > > > time to merge SSB and the b44-ssb port upstream. > > > Note that bcm43xx-mac80211 is _not_ ready for upstream, yet. > > > > > > What do you think? I'd like to merge ssb as-is, although > > > the embedded-device parts are not quite finished, yet. > > > But they don't interfere with the non-embedded parts used > > > by b44 and the bcm43xx PCI cards. > > > So we _could_ remove the ssb-mips code, but I don't like to > > > do that for better maintainability. It doesn't hurt anyone IMO. > > > > What does Ralf (MIPS maintainer) and Gary (Broadcom maintainer) think? > > > > For my part, I'm not going to render even a tentative opinion without a > > link to actual code. > > > > Last I saw of the code, and descriptions in IRC, it sounded sane. > > > > Jeff > > > > I would like to put some test mileage behind the ssb. > We had a hard time testing it a while back, so we will try the latest. Ok, nice to hear. :) I stresstested latest ssb on my b44 card and it works fine here. No TX timeouts or something. -- Greetings Michael.