netdev - Re: Merging SSB upstream

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Message-Id: <200705072235.58587.mb@bu3sch.de>
Date:	Mon, 7 May 2007 22:35:58 +0200
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	"Gary Zambrano" <zambrano@...adcom.com>
Cc:	"Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"John Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de
Subject: Re: Merging SSB upstream

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.
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