Sorry, previous mail was repeated.... > > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 23:14 +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote: > > Hello, > > > > this is a series of four patches for the airo driver: > > > > 1/4: airo: don't use the interface name so much before registration > > 2/4: airo: delay parts of initialization until the netdev is up > > 3/4: airo: disable the PCI device when unloading module > > 4/4: airo: start with radio off > > > > The first two fix the race condition Matteo Croce was experiencing. > > The third one fixes a bug I noticed during testing. > > The last one saves some power when the card is not used. > > I have applied your 4 patches on both a vanilla 2.6.21.5 kernel and > a 2.6.22-rc6 wireless-dev one, and i found that only patches 1/4 and 2/4 > are good. > the 3/4 one gives this bogus output: > > airo(): Probing for PCI adapters > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:08.0 to 64 > airo(eth%d): cmd:111 status:7f11 rsp0:2 rsp1:0 rsp2:0 > airo(eth%d): Doing fast bap_reads > airo(): WPA is supported. > airo(eth0): MAC enabled 0:d:29:4f:c:be > airo(): Finished probing for PCI adapters > > and the 4/4 definitely broke all: > > airo(): Probing for PCI adapters > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:08.0 to 64 > airo(eth%d): cmd:111 status:7f11 rsp0:2 rsp1:0 rsp2:0 > airo(eth%d): Doing fast bap_reads > airo(eth%d): Bad MAC enable reason = 2, rid = 0, offset = 0 > airo(eth%d): MAC could not be enabled > airo(): Finished probing for PCI adapters I investigated further: 1/4 and 3/4 are OK 2/4 makes the ugly output 4/4 broke everything also one of the 4 patches causes a random kernel panic on vanilla 2.6.21.5 but I don't care since they are meant to be applied on another kernel tree Bye Matteo Croce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
