Return-path: Received: from madara.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.124]:55031 "EHLO madara.hpl.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751478AbXLEXlS (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 18:41:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 15:40:59 -0800 To: Shaddy Baddah Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Drake , Johannes Berg , David Miller Subject: Re: zd1211rw (2.6.22 sparc64): unaligned access (do_rx) Message-ID: <20071205234059.GB29299@bougret.hpl.hp.com> (sfid-20071205_234123_181341_7E1B7882) Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com References: <1195484582.8642.18.camel@johannes.berg> <20071119180423.GA19250@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <47443035.1070702@hotmail.com> <20071121184459.GA17199@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <474F86AD.4040403@hotmail.com> <20071130202115.GA32444@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20071204000138.GA1363@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <4756AABC.3000204@hotmail.com> <20071205215600.GA28349@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <4757336F.7050301@hotmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4757336F.7050301@hotmail.com> From: Jean Tourrilhes Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:25:35AM +1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Hi Jean, > > Linux trad 2.6.22 #2 Fri Nov 30 13:47:43 EST 2007 sparc64 GNU/Linux > > (just noticed that the clock is wrong. I'll sort that out later). ntpdate + ntpd is your friend. I believe the CMOS battery is dead on my oldest computers. > > In any case, I've modified my code to use a memcpy() instead > >of direct memory access. I'm not 100% sure it will fix it because many > >time memcpy() is optimised away to a direct memory access. > > > > So, you'll find attached a new version of Wireless Tools. Just > >tell me if it work. You can remove the debugging output by commenting > >out the "#define DEBUG" lines (grep for it). > > Yes, that has fixed it. Thank you very much. Wow ! You means it's all working good now ? You don't see any more problems ? I also believe that this was the last issue you had with Wireless Tools/Wireless Extensions. I believe the driver issue is in good hands. If that's the case, I'll release soon a new Wireless Tools version and push that to distros. > Regards, > Shaddy Thanks a lot ! Jean