Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

[Simon Holm Thøgersen <odie@cs.aau.dk>]

fre, 14 12 2007 kl. 13:31 +0100, skrev Michael Buesch:
> On Friday 14 December 2007 13:16:17 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > > The testers who did nothing but reported that the new driver did not 
> > > > work on their hardware.
> > > 
> > > Which testers?
> > 
> > right in this thread Ray Lee is reporting:
> > 
> > | | Digging a little farther into it, it looks like b43 is barfing 
> > | | partway through init as the firmware file it's looking for has 
> > | | changed names. Perhaps that's the issue. I'll take a longer look at
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ray probably has version 3 of the firmware.

> > | | this all tomorrow.
> > 
> > you are really in denial of reality. Just re-read this thread. Upon 
> > re-reading this thread, try to imagine that you are in place of Ray Lee 
> > (might be hard), that you had a working bcm43xx driver and that now you 
> > try to get b43 to work. You are not a kernel hacker who knows this 
> > driver, just an advanced user who'd like to give you some more feedback 
> > about your shiny new code.
> 
> This user did get the following messages in dmesg:
> 
> b43err(dev->wl, "Firmware file \"%s\" not found "
>        "or load failed.\n", path);

So the question seems to be why b43 needs version 4, when b43legacy and
bcm43x uses version 3?


Simon Holm Thøgersen

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