Re: wireless: recap of current issues (stack)

From: Ulrich Kunitz
Date: Sun Jan 15 2006 - 05:03:05 EST


On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:13:39 +0100 (CET), Ulrich Kunitz <kune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > [...] Register accesses in USB devices should be
> > able to sleep. However the 80211 stacks I've seen so far have a
> > fixed set of capabilities and do also assume, that at the driver
> > layer everything can be done in atomic mode, which is only true
> > for buses that support memory-mapping.
>
> If this problem is real, then it's serious. However, I'm not seeing it
> with prism54usb and Berg's softmac (yet?). Would you be so kind to provide
> the file name and function name for the code which makes these assumptions?
>
> Thanks,
> -- Pete
>

Pete,

I've been wrong.

I couldn't find the problem in the latest version of the
ieee80211softmac. Thank you for noticing me.

Uli

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Ulrich Kunitz - kune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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