Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-22 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 22 September 2007, Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > Michael Buesch wrote: > > > On Saturday 22 September 2007 11:48:00 Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > > > A real high-quality driver will require Johannes' proposed > > > mac80211 driver interface changes to be merged and TX > > > confirmations handled in

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-22 Thread Ulrich Kunitz
Michael Buesch wrote: > On Saturday 22 September 2007 11:48:00 Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > > A real high-quality driver will require Johannes' proposed > > mac80211 driver interface changes to be merged and TX > > confirmations handled in a way, that the semantics can really be > > supported by the dri

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-22 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 22 September 2007 11:48:00 Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > A real high-quality driver will require Johannes' proposed > mac80211 driver interface changes to be merged and TX > confirmations handled in a way, that the semantics can really be > supported by the driver. (Michael Buesh's patch is ta

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-22 Thread Ulrich Kunitz
Sorry for joining the discussion so late, but I have a day job requires sometimes all of my time. John W. Linville wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:08:16PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > > > I would like to this until 2.6.25 until I have had time to clear up some > > final issues and do more t

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-20 Thread Johannes Berg
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 11:37 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > You're on. BTW, I will let you be the primary tester of "[PATCH] fix softmac > lockdep reports" that > Johannes posted earlier today. I see you were CC'd. I plan on testing it with > bcm43xx, but I won't > get to it for a couple of days.

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-20 Thread Larry Finger
Daniel Drake wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: >> If you are determined not to have it in 2.6.24 then I will relent. >> I will also suggest that Larry start sending any softmac bugs to >> you... :-) > > That's fine. You're on. BTW, I will let you be the primary tester of "[PATCH] fix softmac loc

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-20 Thread Daniel Drake
John W. Linville wrote: I know that you will argue that a rename is unnecessary if we simply port the existing driver to mac80211, which is certainly true. I just wonder if that is the least bumpy solution for users. At least with a new driver, if something doesn't work then the old driver is st

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-20 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:08:16PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > I would like to this until 2.6.25 until I have had time to clear up some > final issues and do more testing myself of zd1211rw-mac80211. I also > think we need to discuss the rename... Renames being what they are, I was hoping to a

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-20 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:12:50PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > BTW: I fairly regularly get email from F7 users complaining about > connection intermittancy and other bugs that we don't seem to have for > the softmac driver (maybe stack related issues, of which I've fix

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-19 Thread Daniel Drake
John W. Linville wrote: The maintainers have identified some (IMHO minor) issues with the mac80211 port of this driver. Some of them are summarized here: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw/mac80211Issues Still, I think we would be better-off having this driver upstream.

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-19 Thread Daniel Drake
John W. Linville wrote: Jeff & Dave, This patch adds z1211 (previously known as zd1211rw-mac80211), a driver for Zydas ZD1211 hardware. This driver has proven very robust -- Fedora 7 uses this driver and I don't think I have any open bugzillas for it. BTW: I fairly regularly get email from

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-19 Thread David Miller
From: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:27:09 +0100 > zd1211rw-mac80211 does not currently add anything to the user experience > over the existing driver, other than automatic rate adaption which is > nice but hasn't proven itself to be of much importance given that the

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-19 Thread Daniel Drake
David Miller wrote: From: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:08:16 +0100 John, thanks a lot for your efforts, I hope you don't mind waiting one extra release cycle for me to sort a few things out. Having "a driver" is always better for users than having "no driver". Pl

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-19 Thread David Miller
From: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:08:16 +0100 > John, thanks a lot for your efforts, I hope you don't mind waiting one > extra release cycle for me to sort a few things out. Having "a driver" is always better for users than having "no driver". Please I ask you not

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-19 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:56:41 -0700 (PDT) > I agreed with John to merge this in myself, but this patch > applied to the old driver aparently, not the new z1211 one. > > Can you resend this patch against the new driver so I can > add it to net-2.6.24? Neve

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-19 Thread David Miller
From: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:23:16 +0200 > John, please also note that the following patch is not merged, yet. > http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-dev/20070915-1740/patches/006-zd-fix-tx-status.patch > Without it ratecontrol does not work. It does neither scal

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-19 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 20:59:03 David Miller wrote: > From: "John W. Linville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:10:05 -0400 > > > This patch adds z1211 (previously known as zd1211rw-mac80211), > > a driver for Zydas ZD1211 hardware. This driver has proven very > > robust --

Re: Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-19 Thread David Miller
From: "John W. Linville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:10:05 -0400 > This patch adds z1211 (previously known as zd1211rw-mac80211), > a driver for Zydas ZD1211 hardware. This driver has proven very > robust -- Fedora 7 uses this driver and I don't think I have any open > bugzillas

Please pull 'z1211' branch of wireless-2.6

2007-09-19 Thread John W. Linville
Jeff & Dave, This patch adds z1211 (previously known as zd1211rw-mac80211), a driver for Zydas ZD1211 hardware. This driver has proven very robust -- Fedora 7 uses this driver and I don't think I have any open bugzillas for it. Either the driver works well, or no one as using it...given the comm