Is 'ath' going to be updated for 7.1-RELEASE ?

[eculp at cloudmaster.info]

Quoting eculp at cloudmaster.info:

> Quoting Sam Leffler <sam at freebsd.org>:
>
>> Jack Twilley wrote:
>>> Sam Leffler wrote:
>>>> Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Just came across the release schedule of 7.1-RELEASE. I'm wondering if
>>>>> new version of 'ath' driver (for Athereos Wireless chipsets) is going
>>>>> to be included or not ? If yes, I'll be glad to try the betas :).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Not sure what "new version" means.  I'm unlikely to have any time to
>>>> look at existing ath problems in RELENG_7 before the release.
>>>
>>> I am hoping against hope it means "whatever it takes to make the Asus
>>> Eee PC work without having to follow the steps on the EeeBSD page".  I
>>> rebuilt kernel and world today and forgot *again* to do the madwifi
>>> dance.  It's getting old.
>>
>> The required hal is not even committed to HEAD yet; there's no way it's
>> going to get into RELENG_7 w/o significant testing.  As to "getting old"
>> others are free to pitch in to make things happen.  I have very little
>> time for freebsd right now and what time I do have is focused on higher
>> priority issues.
>
> Just saw the great news, Sam. Thanks for your work on this and for  
> adding it to current. Checking my current@ email I found "HEADS UP:  
> ath_hal updated to 0.10.5.10 -- PLEASE TEST" which I'm completely  
> confident will solve the problems without any more patching.  I just  
> changed my build script for tonight to not add the old patch the  
> source.  I'll comment tomorrow after booting the new kernel.
>
> Thanks again, Sam.
>
Results:

Worked Perfectly for me in today's current without external patches.

wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
         ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5
         inet 172.16.0.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255
         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g
         status: associated
         ssid virus channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:1d:7e:51:e1:4d
         regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1
         wepkey 1:40-bit txpower 16 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300
         bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS wme burst

# uname -a
FreeBSD ed.local.net.mx 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #17: Thu Aug  
28 05:50:27
  CDT 2008     root at ed.local.net.mx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ENCONTACTO  i386

Thanks again to all who have made this happen.

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