RELENG_7 && ath && WPA && stuck when bgscan is active on interface

Sam Leffler sam at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 2 15:00:25 UTC 2008


Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Tuesday, July 01, 2008 a las 08:12:16AM -0700, Sam Leffler escribió:
>
>   
>> Pulling in a hal from madwifi to use w/ a freebsd driver can easily 
>> cause problems.  That is what I meant by "random collection...".
>>
>>     
>>> the info about that is coming from this Wiki:
>>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee
>>>
>>> is there some way to get your hal bits into RELENG_7?
>>>
>>>  
>>>       
>> The hal is not in HEAD so MFC to RELENG_7 is premature.  In fact I 
>> hadn't even announced the hal for testing yet but now that I've returned 
>> from 3 weeks AFK it's probably time.  I also wanted to backport all the 
>> important driver mods to RELENG_7 before saying anything but that didn't 
>> happen.
>>     
>
> I'd be happy to compile and test it in RELENG_7. Just drop me a note
> when something is ready for test or commited; thx
>
>   
The only issue I know about is that older parts that communicate PHY 
errors to the host through rx descriptors need a change (check 
if_ath.c:ath_calcrxfilter in HEAD).  Don't wait on me, it's likely going 
to be a while before I can do anything.

    Sam



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