compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc5 released

compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc5 released

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

We're closing in on the 2.6.37 release, now at rc5, so I'll start
making two releases, a vanilla release and one which has more stuff.
For now I'll just suck in all pending stable patches (all patches
marked with Cc: stable@kernel.org on linux-next.git, not only
Atheros', everyone's). This is:

pending-stable/0001-cfg80211-pass-the-reg-hint-initiator-to-helpers.patch
pending-stable/0002-cfg80211-fix-allowing-country-IEs-for-WIPHY_FLAG_STR.patch
pending-stable/0003-cfg80211-fix-disabling-channels-based-on-hints.patch
pending-stable/0004-ath9k_hw-fix-potential-spurious-tx-error-bit-interpr.patch
pending-stable/0005-ath9k-simplify-hw-reset-locking.patch
pending-stable/0006-ath9k-move-the-PCU-lock-to-the-sc-structure.patch
pending-stable/0007-ath9k-content-DMA-start-stop-through-the-PCU-lock.patch
pending-stable/0008-ath9k_hw-Fix-XPABIAS-level-configuration-for-AR9003.patch
pending-stable/0009-ath9k-Fix-bug-in-delimiter-padding-computation.patch
pending-stable/0010-ath9k-Disable-SWBA-interrupt-on-remove_interface.patch
pending-stable/0011-mac80211-Fix-STA-disconnect-due-to-MIC-failure.patch
pending-stable/0012-ath9k-Fix-STA-disconnect-issue-due-to-received-MIC-f.patch
pending-stable/0013-ath9k-Fix-bug-in-reading-input-gpio-state-for-ar9003.patch
pending-stable/0014-ath9k_hw-fix-endian-issues-with-CTLs-on-AR9003.patch

You can find the vanilla [1] and extra pending-stable [2] releass on
the stable download page [3] along with the respective ChangeLog of
all:

  * The kernel components
  * compat-wireless
  * compat

In later releases we will have to consider if we want to cherry pick
anything extra or leave them as is. These few patches seem tempting to
suck in:

01-ath9k-OTP.patch
03-ath9k-no-aggr-VO.patch
04-mac80211-no-aggr-VO.patch
05-ath9k-Reintroduce-modparam-to-enable-btcoex.patch
06-ath9k_hw-fix-A-MPDU-key-search-issues-on-AR9003.patch

Particularly it is now known AR9003 devices will only ship with OTP
so.. it seems to make sense to actually disable AR9003 on 36 and even
37 and only have it available with the OTP patch and above EEPROM
fixes. I'm inclined to just disregard all these and just let us get
AR9003 from 2.6.38.... but we already have users of AR9003 coming up
so this can't wait in practice now. This now goes compile-tested and
fixed for 2.6.31.

[1] http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-2.6-stable/v2.6.37/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc5-2.tar.bz2
[2] http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-2.6-stable/v2.6.37/compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc5-2-s.tar.bz2
[3] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable
[4] http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-2.6-stable/v2.6.37/ChangeLog-2.6.37-wireless

  Luis

Re: compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc5 released

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> In later releases we will have to consider if we want to cherry pick
> anything extra or leave them as is. These few patches seem tempting to
> suck in:
>
> 01-ath9k-OTP.patch
> 03-ath9k-no-aggr-VO.patch
> 04-mac80211-no-aggr-VO.patch
> 05-ath9k-Reintroduce-modparam-to-enable-btcoex.patch
> 06-ath9k_hw-fix-A-MPDU-key-search-issues-on-AR9003.patch
>
> Particularly it is now known AR9003 devices will only ship with OTP
> so..

So it turns out this is inaccurate, AR9003 devices can ship with
EEPROM only or with OTP, it will vary, so while 2.6.36 and 2.6.37 will
not support only OTP based devices 2.6.38 will support both. What we
can do is cherry pick the OTP patches to the 2.6.36 and 2.6.37
compat-wireless releases but those two older stock kernels won't have
support for these.

 Luis

Re: compat-wireless-2.6.37-rc5 released

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 01-ath9k-OTP.patch
>> 03-ath9k-no-aggr-VO.patch
>> 04-mac80211-no-aggr-VO.patch

>> 05-ath9k-Reintroduce-modparam-to-enable-btcoex.patch

I'll skip this one, better synch the modparam with a kernel release
rather than an update like compat-wireless.

>> 06-ath9k_hw-fix-A-MPDU-key-search-issues-on-AR9003.patch

I'm going to start sucking the reset in for a compat-wireless-2.6.37
release. Please let me know if you believe any other patches are
worthy, even if they are for other drivers, etc.

  Luis