From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 19:42:36 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 93E39B56; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:42:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x22a.google.com (mail-we0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::22a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA4CDCFC; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:42:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f170.google.com with SMTP id x48so2059830wes.1 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:42:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=cyWY6fKFdRpqO/P0Cf26Z/umC0v/mNON5r/9JnD93nc=; b=zr48FyzaDvirojuWr3wRozivPFMPBW+tJsz58KtqZPKnwmHroxswHP7zlpAw64DR3U PCEmo3wUgW7QOc2dy+V00AmolMDEgpb8QMmx6X65x7GhtvCtxiKaIwyQ8hpkwdsxF61m Aq7Hx4xmlKyK3MOx89SvmRIvUh6YYV36RIg22TOCXa7BtlvgvjMhbeGf4MxFhDfCNFpm C78oT9NmMTaFBed7bkDdIVBczAkO8wzLvzv7x+3DYQl2EUWxECWL44IjrsTtEQGqoX6C u+aQ0l45uIM77YX55/x3CR+45xO9rt4uoj13aVdE5ykHOkk9re/V1u+XKg+gxQhoVSLa h6+Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.59.244 with SMTP id c20mr22899520wjr.59.1411414954087; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:42:34 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.106.199 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:42:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2930763.7FbKMgYveJ@ralph.baldwin.cx> References: <1815820.OytfPhNq3X@ralph.baldwin.cx> <4D1FD834-2861-4D16-9ABF-21B8B07561F8@bsdimp.com> <2930763.7FbKMgYveJ@ralph.baldwin.cx> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:42:34 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: E_jFD5VTRNDUurQX91mKj9vY91I Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Various fixes to wl(4) From: Adrian Chadd To: John Baldwin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current , Warner Losh , Warner Losh X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:42:36 -0000 On 22 September 2014 12:20, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday, September 19, 2014 03:47:16 PM Warner Losh wrote: >> I got rid of my pre-802.11 WaveLAN cards about 8 years go after not havi= ng >> them in a system at all for 8 years. And they were about 4 years obsolet= e >> when I took them out of service=E2=80=A6 I=E2=80=99m not even sure I hav= e a machine with an >> ISA slot to test the card, even if I still had it. >> >> Sorry I can=E2=80=99t help more :) > > If no one tests them then I will happily toss the driver into the dustbin= , > just giving folks a chance to test patches before I do so. (I'm secretly > hoping I can purge several old drivers during the current round of timeou= t() > purging.) > The wavelan/prism driver no longer works out of the box and hasn't since I took over the net80211 stack. TL;DR - some changes from sam and others a few years ago to do raw 802.11 frame transmit just doesn't work on all the wavelan cards that are in use. I've asked for someone interested to go through the changelog and back out those changes, making the driver again a straight 802.3 transmit driver - but noone has. :( So yes, you have a +1 to disconnect the wavelan driver from the build. -a