Hello! I'm about to submit series of 21 patches for Orinoco drivers. Those patches have been in Orinoco CVS for months, and there have been no bug reports. I believe it's about time that I submit the patches to the kernel.
I know, I've missed the boat for 2.6.17 (sorry for that, I was really overworked), but I hope it's better to submit the patches as early as possible so that they get some public exposure before ending up in the kernel. The changes are minimal, despite the size of the patches. The intention was to make as much cleanup as possible and call it 0.15, and then start doing real changes. The patches are available at http://red-bean.com/proski/orinoco/ This includes the cumulative patch and a zip archive with all patches. Andrew, maybe you you include the patches into the "mm" kernel? Here's a brief overview of the changes: 1) Remove old cruft, such as obsolete PCMCIA code, obsolete comments, obsolete debug code. 2) Fix misleading comments. For instance, Symbol Spectrum24 LA4137 was called Symbol Spectrum24 LA4100. 3) Fixes for minor annoyances, such as a kernel warning emitted every time when iwconfig requests stats on recent Symbol firmware. 4) Optimization for Tx exception handling. No need to read the complete Tx descriptor if just a few fields are needed. 5) Serious rework of the Tx code. The low level function for copying data to the card has been changed to accept odd number of bytes, which allows to remove all padding code used in the kernel. Not a single unwanted byte would leak to the air. Also, error handling has been redone, transmit errors are counted in one place, and orinoco_xmit() returns what the network layer expects it to, rather than -errno. 802.3 encapsulation has been slightly simplified. 6) The driver will reset the card in case of some bad Tx errors. 7) The driver will print the firmware version before trying to allocate the transmission buffer, so that users can report the firmware version in case of errors. 8) "Pseudo-PCI" drivers (i.e. drivers for cards in primitive PCI-to-PCMCIA adaptors) support suspend and resume now. 9) PCI suspend frees the IRQ and disables the device. 10) All I/O is done using the iomem API. 11) The code common between PCI and pseudo-PCI drivers has been put to orinoco_pci.h. The drivers have been changed to minimize differences between them. Sorry, it's a big patch, but that's how it was made, and splitting it would be rewriting history. I did split what I could (comment changes). -- Regards, Pavel Roskin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
