HEADS UP: ath_hal updated to 0.10.5.10 -- PLEASE TEST

Rui Paulo rpaulo at FreeBSD.org
Sat Sep 13 18:27:01 UTC 2008


On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 01:25:44PM -0400, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote:
> Are there estimations for the MFC ? Obviously, after 7.1, but how long ?
> I think (sm) that if everyone interested in MFC and running RELENG_7
> would replace his local copy of /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/ath with the
> one from the HEAD, rebuild his kernel, or, as it was the case for me,
> ath_hal.ko and if_ath.ko, run with it for a while and report success
> back to this list, we can speed this up dramatically. In my experience,
> replacing 9.x.x.x HAL that came with RELENG_7 with this one solved at
> least one persistent and annoying problem, and so far has not shown any
> regressions. YMMV.
> 
> But then again, I am not the one who would be doing MFC, so this is just
> an assumption on my part, not necessarily correct or useful.

I may do an MFC in medium-to-long time, but there are some changes in
the code that I need to clear up with Sam. So, expect this only in 7.2.

Regards,
-- 
Rui Paulo


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