[ANN] compat-wireless released based on 3.3-rc6
From: Luis R. Rodriguez <hidden>
Date: 2012-03-10 01:03:59
We chug along and are now at 3.3-rc6. We're close to the final release so we push out the first Wireless / Bluetooth / Ethernet backport rc release based on rc6. We have two releases for this update, a vanilla one [0] and a -n release [1] which has 14 patches cherry picked from linux-next.git as suggested by nbd as listed below. These additional patches are patches which have been deemed as non-critical-fix but important for AP mode users at least. As explained previously, we have directories to help with coping with "emergency" fixes or "extra fixes" or "hot fixes" or whatever your favorite PHB wants to call it [2], we categorize these patches accordingly to help ensure we keep patches in route upstream. If you want patches merged into these releases that fit those descriptions just send me a patch! For complete details of this release you can read the ChangeLog-3.3-wireless file [3]. And yes, I should clarify this is not just a release for wireless, it includes wireless, bluetooth and ethernet. They all use the shared compat module [4] but compat-wireless [5] is the framework that pulls them all together. What's new now is we have a shiny web page for the compat module [4]. If you're curious about hacking on compat-wireless see the hacking page [6] and if you want to help as a student go check out the Google Summer of Code project [7] Please report any issues you see with this release. mcgrof@tux ~/devel/compat-wireless (git::linux-3.3.y)$ ls -1 linux-next-cherry-picks/ 0001-mac80211-Fix-incorrect-num_sta_ps-decrement-in-__sta.patch 0002-mac80211-Fix-incorrect-num_sta_ps-decrement-in-ap_st.patch 0003-mac80211-Move-num_sta_ps-counter-decrement-after-syn.patch 0004-ath9k-Initialize-NF-values-properly.patch 0005-ath9k-Fix-programming-SYNTH4-for-AR9462.patch 0006-ath9k-Fix-descriptor-length-for-AR9462.patch 0007-mac80211-handle-non-bufferable-MMPDUs-correctly.patch 0008-Revert-ath9k_hw-Fix-false-tx-hung-detection-in-AR900.patch 0009-ath9k-do-not-call-ath9k_hw_txprocdesc-on-AR9003-outs.patch 0010-ath9k_hw-enable-interrupts-for-beacon-tx-completion-.patch 0011-ath9k-fix-drv_tx_last_beacon-on-AR9003-by-processing.patch 0012-ath9k_hw-use-cold-instead-of-warm-reset-on-AR9280.patch 0013-mac80211-add-an-rx-flag-for-ignoring-a-packet-s-sign.patch 0014-ath9k-fix-signal-strength-reporting-issues.patch [0] http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.3/compat-wireless-3.3-rc6-1.tar.bz2 [1] http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.3/compat-wireless-3.3-rc6-1-n.tar.bz2 [2] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/#Additional_patches_to_stable_releases [3] http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.3/ChangeLog-3.3-wireless [4] http://mcgrof.github.com/compat/ [5] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/ [6] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/hacking [7] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/gsoc/2012-gsoc-driver-backports Luis