Dave, Hold-off on this one for now if -- clearly Johannes and I need to brush-up on our Kconfig skills... :-( I'll post a new pull request soon. Thanks, John On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:13:14PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > Dave, > > Here are some fixes for 2.6.24... > > The iwlwifi patch is needed because the iwlwifi drivers routinely end-up > associated with the "simple" rate control algorithm, yet those drivers > really only work with their own custom algorithms. The other rate > control patches are there to satisfy dependencies for this patch. > > "mac80211: remove ieee80211_common.h" cleans-up an unused file left > hanging-around after an earlier patch already in 2.6.24. > > "mac80211: remove unused driver ops" is really a clean-up, but > "mac80211: use IW_AUTH_PRIVACY_INVOKED rather than IW_AUTH_KEY_MGMT" > depends on it. > > "ssb: Fix initcall ordering" changes a subsys_initcall to an > fs_initcall. This seems like a bit of a hack, but it fixes a real > problem and I'm not sure what cleaner solution is either reasonable > or available. The comment in the patch explains the reasoning for this > somewhat unique situation. > > I think the other patches are plain enough to not require further > comment. Let me know if there are any problems! > > Thanks, > > John > > --- > > Individual patches are available here: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/fixes-davem/ > > --- > > The following changes since commit 2655e2cee2d77459fcb7e10228259e4ee0328697: > Alan Cox (1): > ata_piix: Add additional PCI identifier for 40 wire short cable > > are available in the git repository at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git fixes-davem > > Johannes Berg (9): > softmac: fix wext MLME request reason code endianness > mac80211: make simple rate control algorithm built-in > mac80211: don't allow registering the same rate control twice > mac80211: allow driver to ask for a rate control algorithm > iwlwifi: select proper rate control algorithm > softmac: MAINTAINERS update > mac80211: remove ieee80211_common.h > mac80211: remove unused driver ops > mac80211: use IW_AUTH_PRIVACY_INVOKED rather than IW_AUTH_KEY_MGMT > > John W. Linville (1): > mac80211: make "decrypt failed" messages conditional upon MAC80211_DEBUG > > Michael Buesch (5): > ssb: Fix initcall ordering > rfkill: Register LED triggers before registering switch > rfkill: Use subsys_initcall > rfkill: Use mutex_lock() at register and add sanity check > rfkill: Fix sparse warning > > MAINTAINERS | 7 +-- > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c | 2 + > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c | 2 + > drivers/ssb/main.c | 5 +- > include/net/mac80211.h | 26 ++------ > net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c | 2 +- > net/mac80211/Kconfig | 12 ++++ > net/mac80211/Makefile | 3 +- > net/mac80211/ieee80211.c | 16 +++++- > net/mac80211/ieee80211_common.h | 91 --------------------------- > net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 2 +- > net/mac80211/ieee80211_ioctl.c | 21 +++---- > net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c | 24 ++++++- > net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.h | 3 + > net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c | 18 +++-- > net/mac80211/rc80211_simple.c | 25 +------- > net/mac80211/rx.c | 2 + > net/mac80211/wep.c | 2 + > net/mac80211/wpa.c | 18 ++++-- > net/rfkill/rfkill.c | 37 ++++++----- > 20 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 192 deletions(-) > delete mode 100644 net/mac80211/ieee80211_common.h -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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
