From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 8 12:27:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558E11065672 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:27:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vova@sw.ru) Received: from relay.sw.ru (mailhub.sw.ru [195.214.232.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7BA18FC12 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 12:27:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vova@sw.ru) Received: from vbook.fbsd.ru ([10.30.1.111]) (authenticated bits=0) by relay.sw.ru (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id mB8CRINT018983 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:27:19 +0300 (MSK) Received: from vova by vbook.fbsd.ru with local (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1L9fCn-0003z0-WB; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:27:18 +0300 From: Vladimir Grebenschikov To: Sam Leffler In-Reply-To: <200811301906.mAUJ6Z30099035@svn.freebsd.org> References: <200811301906.mAUJ6Z30099035@svn.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:27:17 +0300 Message-Id: <1228739237.1860.21.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Sender: Vladimir Grebenschikov Cc: current Subject: Re: svn commit: r185482 - head/sys/dev/ath/ath_rate/sample X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:27:23 -0000 * On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 19:06 +0000, Sam Leffler wrote: > Author: sam > Date: Sun Nov 30 19:06:35 2008 > New Revision: 185482 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/185482 > > Log: > Major overhaul: > o eliminate private state indexed by 802.11 rate codes; use the hal's > rate tables directly to get the same info > o calculate a mask of operational rates to optimize lookups and checks > (instead of using for loops and similar) > o optimize size bin operations > o ignore rates marked as "do not use" in the hal phy tables > o fix bug that caused upshifting to break in 11g once the rate dropped > below 11Mb/s > o add more intelligent multi-rate tx schedules > o add support for 1/2 and 1/4 width channels > o add dev.ath.X.sample_stats sysctl to dump runtime statistics to the console > (needs to go up to a user app) > o export more tuning knobs via sysctls (still a couple of magic constants) Looks like, after that commit, I can't use if_ath loaded as module any more: # kldload /boot/kernel/ath_rate.ko kldload: can't load /boot/kernel/ath_rate.ko: No such file or directory # dmesg | tail -n1 link_elf: symbol ath_hal_computetxtime undefined # Yes, I've read UPDATING entry 20081130. But I have no ath_hal entry in my kernel config, I've loaded ath as KLDs. How to fix that problem ? -- Vladimir B. Grebenschikov vova@fbsd.ru