Is 'ath' going to be updated for 7.1-RELEASE ?

[Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko]

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 ¥à ¤•à ¥à ¤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? 

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Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)