Call for Test and Review: bwn(4) - another Broadcom Wireless driver

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Mar 2 13:30:05 UTC 2010


On Monday 01 March 2010 3:22:34 pm Gustau Pérez wrote:
> En/na Weongyo Jeong ha escrit:
> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:21:06PM -0800, Xin LI wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi, Weongyo,
> >>
> >> On 2010/02/25 16:51, Weongyo Jeong wrote:
> >>     
> >>> FYI bwn(4) driver is committed into FreeBSD tree.  I think the driver 
> >>> supports your LP PHY device.  After cvsup please try to rebuild siba_bwn
> >>> and bwn modules.
> >>>
> >>> Could you please test with it?  Please let me know and send me your 
> >>> full dmesg when you encounters the following problems:
> >>>
> >>>   - if the driver doesn't work or is unstable.
> >>>   - if it prints debugging or verbose messages.
> >>>       
> >> Great!  Thanks for the work!
> >>
> >> Is it possible to MFC the work back to 8-STABLE at some point?
> >>     
> >
> > Of course yes.  AFAIK it could be compiled and works without problems on
> > 8-STABLE; I checked it.  :-)
> >
> >   
>    I'm trying to run it in STABLE right now. When kldloading if_bwm
> (following the given instructions, the other modules are kldloaded) it
> complains with :
> 
>          link_elf_obj: symbol _mtx_assert undefined
> 
>    looks like it fails in if_bwnvar.h. Culprit is this define :
>   
>             #define    BWN_ASSERT_LOCKED(sc)   
> mtx_assert(&(sc)->sc_mtx, MA_OWNED)
> 
>    Do I need witness enabled to run this ? Is there any way to run it in
> STABLE  or do I need to run CURRENT ?

It sounds like you have INVARIANTS defined when the module was built, but your 
kernel does not have INVARIANT_SUPPORT defined.

-- 
John Baldwin


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