On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:30:25PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Tuesday 15 August 2006 17:23, Larry Finger wrote: > > Michael Buesch wrote:
> > > This fixes various bugs in the init and shutdown code > > > that would lead to lockups and crashes. > > > This is best reproducable by receiving a timeout from > > > the netdev watchdog. > > > > Is a similar bug likely to be the cause of the netdev watchdog timeouts in > > bcm43xx-softmac? If so, will there be a patch for wireless-2.6? > > I don't know why the _timeouts_ itself happen, but maybe the > lockup and crash bugs are in bcm43xx-softmac, too. > I think it should be actually trivial to port this to bcm43xx-softmac. > Care to do this, Larry? Actually, this leads to a bigger question. I noticed Michael pleading his support dilemma w.r.t. supporting both wireless-2.6 and wirless-dev. I'm sure he now regrets the "stunt" of trying to support both at the same time... :-) Anyway, it would seem like many of these fixes would be readily ported between the trees. It seems like we need someone to take-on this (admittedly thankless) maintainence task from now until the new stack merges into wireless-2.6. Larry, you seem like a great candidate for this role. Are you interested? If not, is there someone else in the bcm43xx camp that would oblige us? Thanks in advance! John P.S. FWIW, I definitely thank Michael for his work supporting both stack to date. I think the dscape stack would be much farther behind w/o the users enabled by the bcm43xx-dscape driver. -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
