On Wednesday 23 January 2008 14:48:50 Stefano Brivio wrote: > This zeros out all microcode related memory before loading > the microcode. > > This also fixes initialization of the MAC control register. > The _only_ place where we overwrite the contents of the MAC control > register is at the beginning of b43_chip_init(). > All other places must do read() -> mask/set -> write() to not > overwrite existing bits. > > This also adds a longer delay for waiting for the microcode > to initialize itself. It seems that the current timeout is sufficient > on all available devices, but there's no real reason why we shouldn't > wait for up to one second. Slow embedded devices might exist. > Better safe than sorry. > > While at it, fix naming of MACCTL values. > > This patch by Michael Buesch has been ported to b43legacy. > > Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@xxxxxxxxx> > --- Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> > John, this bugfix should go into 2.6.24, if possible. We agreed in private that this is actually pretty intrusive and the patches should _not_ go into 2.6.24, as they don't actually fix known bugs. -- Greetings Michael. - 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
