Re: HEADS UP: ath_hal updated to 0.10.5.10 -- PLEASE TEST

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 18:05 +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 03:51:45PM +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 09:50:11AM -0400, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 01:29 +0100, Rui Paulo wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > We've updated ath_hal in HEAD to 0.10.5.10. This supports a couple of
> > > > new chips, namely those on the Asus Eee PC, MacBooks and other laptops.
> > > > 
> > > > If you have an Atheros or Atheros based card, I really wanted you to
> > > > test it. We were unable to test this in several Atheros chipsets, so
> > > > if you find a regression, please contact me or Sam Leffler
> > > > (sam_at_freebsd.org) ASAP.
> > > > So, please give it a try :-)
> > > I don't know if it is necessarily useful thing to report, but I have
> > > pulled it into RELENG_7 (as of August 29th) and so far I have not seen
> > > lookups, which were my regular fare with 0.9.20.3 and powerd.
> > 
> > Yes, I think I had them too sometimes.
> > 
> > > I see a lot of "bogus rix..." and "bogus ndx0..." messages flying by,
> > > but since nobody promised that this should work on RELENG_7, I don't
> > > think they are worth reporting ;)
> > 
> > They happen to me on HEAD too (but I think they are harmless).
> 
> 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.


-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)