linux-kernel - Re: bcm43xx regression in 2.6.24 (with patch)

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Date:	Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:14:38 +0100
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	"Alexey Zaytsev" <alexey.zaytsev@...il.com>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Alexey Zaytsev" <zaytsev.a@...tei.ru>, "Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bcm43xx regression in 2.6.24 (with patch)

On Thursday 28 February 2008 23:48:48 Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 February 2008 23:41:55 Michael Buesch wrote:
> >  > On Tuesday 26 February 2008 23:12:32 Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> >  > > >  Yeah, seems so. But if you are willing to test an adjusted version, I can
> >  > > >  probably do a backported version of this patch.
> >  > > >  This patch is well tested and does the right thing, so I'm willing to sign
> >  > > >  off a backported version of this.
> >  > > >  First need to find the place in the old phy.c code that matches the new wa.c code.
> >  > > >
> >  > > I'll do the testing.
> >  >
> >  > Index: linux-2.6.24.3/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c
> >  > ===================================================================
> >  > --- linux-2.6.24.3.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c        2008-02-26 23:39:39.000000000 +0100
> >  > +++ linux-2.6.24.3/drivers/net/wireless/b43/dma.c     2008-02-26 23:39:43.000000000 +0100
> >  > @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static void op64_fill_descriptor(struct
> >  >       addrhi = (((u64) dmaaddr >> 32) & ~SSB_DMA_TRANSLATION_MASK);
> >  >       addrext = (((u64) dmaaddr >> 32) & SSB_DMA_TRANSLATION_MASK)
> >  [snip]
> >
> >  So are you actually going to do this anytime soon?
> >
> 
> Sorry for the delay. Yes, it worked fine.

Fine :)

> Btw, when booting the system with the b43 driver, I get a
> ~30 socond delay after the boot scripts report
> "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated" and all the modules
> get loaded. Is this something expected?

No. Probably firmware related.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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