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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:32:28 -0700
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "scan stuck" with if_iwi(4)
Message-ID:  <44C95B1C.1080305@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <44C95084.6020209@errno.com>
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Sam Leffler wrote:
> Andrew Thompson wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:28:12PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
>>> Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
>>>> Oh? Sounds interesting, where can I find these patches?
>>> The work has always been in perforce.freebsd.org; look in the sam_wifi
>>> branch.  The code will not hit head until folks show up to fix legacy
>>> drivers that use net80211.  I got stuck holding the bag when I committed
>>> the wpa support and it ain't going to happen again.
>>>
>> Do you have a list of drivers that are stalling this? 
> 
> The changes decouple scanning from the net80211 state machine so any
> driver that uses ieee80211_new_state is affected:
> 
> tubby% grep -l ieee80211_new_state */*.c
> ath/if_ath.c
> awi/awi.c
> ipw/if_ipw.c
> iwi/if_iwi.c
> ral/rt2560.c
> ral/rt2661.c
> usb/if_ural.c
> wi/if_wi.c
> 
> I know how to convert ath and ral.  iwi and ipw might not be too bad now
> that they've been changed to not abuse the state machine so much.  awi,
> ural, and wi will break.  ural might be ok after the new usb stack comes
> in but that's not clear.
> 
> So I guess I'd take responsibility for ath and ral and want help with
> all other drivers.

I forgot the other key item missing from the above list: ndis.  It
bypasses the net80211 api's lots of places and frobs things directly so
converting may be a big job--hard to say until someone tries it.

	Sam



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