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

[eculp at cloudmaster.info]

Quoting Sam Leffler <sam at freebsd.org>:

> Jack Twilley wrote:
>> Sam Leffler wrote:
>>> Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल 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.

Just saw the great news, Sam. Thanks for your work on this and for  
adding it to current. Checking my current@ email I found "HEADS UP:  
ath_hal updated to 0.10.5.10 -- PLEASE TEST" which I'm completely  
confident will solve the problems without any more patching.  I just  
changed my build script for tonight to not add the old patch the  
source.  I'll comment tomorrow after booting the new kernel.

Thanks again, Sam.

ed.
>
> 	Sam
>
>
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