Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:41:23 -0400 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com> To: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> Cc: Jack Twilley <jmt@twilley.org>, Ashish Shukla =?UTF-8?Q?=E0=A4=86=E0=A4=B6=E0=A5=80=E0=A4=B7_?= =?UTF-8?Q?=E0=A4=B6=E0=A5=81=E0=A4=95=E0=A5=8D=E0=A4=B2?= <wahjava.ml@gmail.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is 'ath' going to be updated for 7.1-RELEASE ? Message-ID: <1219801283.1118.26.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <48B45BEB.2090502@freebsd.org> References: <87vdxr9d9y.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <48B42777.1050304@freebsd.org> <48B43D90.8090807@twilley.org> <48B44FCA.9070609@freebsd.org> <48B4526E.8000802@twilley.org> <48B45BEB.2090502@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 12:39 -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > Jack Twilley wrote: > > Sam Leffler wrote: > >> Jack Twilley wrote: > >>> Sam Leffler wrote: > >>>> Ashish Shukla à ¤†à ¤¶à ¥€à ¤· > >>>> à ¤¶à ¥Âà ¤•à ¥Âà ¤² wrote: > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> Just came across the release schedule of 7.1-RELEASE. I'm > >>>>> wondering if > >>>>> new version of 'ath' driver (for Athereos Wireless chipsets) is going > >>>>> to be included or not ? If yes, I'll be glad to try the betas :). > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> Not sure what "new version" means. I'm unlikely to have any time to > >>>> look at existing ath problems in RELENG_7 before the release. > >>> I am hoping against hope it means "whatever it takes to make the Asus > >>> Eee PC work without having to follow the steps on the EeeBSD page". I > >>> rebuilt kernel and world today and forgot *again* to do the madwifi > >>> dance. It's getting old. > >> > >> The required hal is not even committed to HEAD yet; there's no way it's > >> going to get into RELENG_7 w/o significant testing. As to "getting old" > >> others are free to pitch in to make things happen. I have very little > >> time for freebsd right now and what time I do have is focused on higher > >> priority issues. > > > > All I can offer is the ability to test. I do not have the skill > > necessary to fix this or I would have written a fix and asked for it > > to be committed. It is amazingly frustrating to know that there is a > > workaround and to see that others consider this a low priority issue. > > > > If not you, then who should I ask about committing the new HAL to HEAD > > and helping me check out whatever I need to check out to test the fix > > so the rest of us can have wireless Ethernet working out of the box? > > I have repeatedly asked for testing of the 0.10.5.6 hal sitting in > http://www.freebsd.org/~sam on HEAD but not gotten enough results to > commit to HEAD. Since I am running RELENG_7 with 0.10.5.6 HAL anyway (to have ath and powerd happily coexisting) are there any specific scenarios, that you'd like tested? -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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