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Re: compat-wireless + Linux 2.6.26.8 testing results

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On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 13:23 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> > It looks like compat-wireless-2.6.33-rc8 and compat-wireless-2010-02-13
>> > don't have the patches to deal with the lack of netif_tx_wake_queue and
>> > select_queue in Linux 2.6.26.  compat-wireless-2.6.32.8 has such
>> > patches.
>>
>> Oh right, so I was hoping to get some reports on results of MQ
>> backport on 2.6.32.y, I guess its OK enough to merge now and if its
>> borked we can remove older kernel support or something.
>
> I confirm that ath5k and ath9k actually work on that kernel, so the
> results are good.

Sweet!

> There are some funny messages from ath9k, but scanning still works, and
> I don't think it's related to compat-wireless:
>
> ath9k 0000:00:01.0: alloc_safe_buffer: could not alloc dma memory (size=3872)
> ath9k 0000:00:01.0: map_single: unable to map unsafe buffer c6ffe020!
> ath9k 0000:00:01.0: alloc_safe_buffer: could not alloc dma memory (size=3872)
> ath9k 0000:00:01.0: map_single: unable to map unsafe buffer c6800020!

Interesting, not sure what could cause this.

>> > That appears to be caused by the lack of
>> > dma_sync_single_range_for_device on the arm architecture.
>>
>> Interesting... well that would just mean we have to lift SSB off of
>> 2.6.28 kernels.
>
> Perhaps you mean 2.6.26?

Sorry, for some reason I misunderstood and though you were using
2.6.28. Since you did use 2.6.26 it means you did test the new MQ
code, so great :) I'll move that stuff to bleeding edge code + 2.6.33
branch.

> Anyway, I'd rather see
> dma_sync_single_range_for_device() for ARM backported.

Patches are welcomed for it indeed.

  Luis
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