Suspend vs Network Traffic - blockers

Deepak Saxena dsaxena at laptop.org
Tue Aug 12 14:44:23 EDT 2008


On Aug 12 2008, at 12:19, Javier Cardona was caught saying:
> > So it doesn't look like Javier's patch actually went into one of our official
> > branches (stable/testing/master). I'm also not sure we need it b/c testing
> > and stable have the following commit that came in 6 days after Javier's patch
> > on trac and it seems to deal with the same issue:
> >
> > commit c16eba59c2183f9d4952eca4d720982cfbe8e031
> > Author: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
> > Date:   Mon May 19 18:47:52 2008 +0100
> >
> >    libertas: fix multicast handling on eth and msh interfaces
> 
> You are correct.  The patch that I sent is unnecessary, as David
> Woodhouse rewrote it in a much better way.
> I tested his implementation and it passed all our test cases.  So you
> can ignore my patch.
> (In case anyone needs them, our tests for this are here:
> http://dev.laptop.org/~javier/misc/olpc-mcast-stable-tests.tar.gz)

Great!  Ricardo, when you get a chance, can you validate on latest
joyride that everything is working OK?

> We are waiting for Marvell for an updated firmware that implements a
> simpler API to configure wake-on-wlan signatures.  The proposed API
> was really hard to use and would require additional changes to support
> IPv6.  Before pushing this upstream we wanted to have a cleaner
> driver/fw interface.
> 
> Marvell will implement the new wow-signature API with the next
> firmware release (22p18)

OK, so I'll not push the existing patches into 8.2 and we can roll 
this into 8.2.1 when all the bits are ready.

Thanks!
~Deepak

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Deepak Saxena - Kernel Developer - dsaxena at laptop.org



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