Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:39:23 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@freebsd.org> To: Jack Twilley <jmt@twilley.org> Cc: =?UTF-8?B?QXNoaXNoIFNodWtsYSDgpIbgpLbgpYDgpLcg4KS24KWB4KSV4KWN4KSy?= <wahjava.ml@gmail.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is 'ath' going to be updated for 7.1-RELEASE ? Message-ID: <48B45BEB.2090502@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <48B4526E.8000802@twilley.org> References: <87vdxr9d9y.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <48B42777.1050304@freebsd.org> <48B43D90.8090807@twilley.org> <48B44FCA.9070609@freebsd.org> <48B4526E.8000802@twilley.org>
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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. I will not commit a hal to any tree that causes regressions. Atheros long ago yanked the testing resources I used to validate hal's for release so I am uncertain whether this hal will introduce regressions. If things go bad I simply don't have the time to deal with it so nothing has gone in. Past that a backport to RELENG_7 is straightforward but again nothing happens until code is in HEAD. I am asking around for someone else to deal with a commit to HEAD. Sam
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