Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933260AbXLNNCU (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:02:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765468AbXLNNCF (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:02:05 -0500 Received: from smtp.cs.aau.dk ([130.225.194.6]:59917 "EHLO smtp.cs.aau.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764715AbXLNNCE (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:02:04 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex From: Simon Holm =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Th=F8gersen?= To: Michael Buesch Cc: Ingo Molnar , Ray Lee , bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, Daniel Walker , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@bohmer.net, jonathan@jonmasters.org, matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com, kjwinchester@gmail.com, John Linville In-Reply-To: <200712141331.59410.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <20071213003028.676998182@mvista.com> <200712141239.51809.mb@bu3sch.de> <20071214121617.GE23964@elte.hu> <200712141331.59410.mb@bu3sch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:59:54 +0100 Message-Id: <1197637194.7549.10.camel@odie.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1602 Lines: 44 fre, 14 12 2007 kl. 13:31 +0100, skrev Michael Buesch: > On Friday 14 December 2007 13:16:17 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Michael Buesch 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/