As many people don't seem to like the locking "obfuscation"
in the bcm43xx driver, this patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Make the heavy periodic work preemptible to avoid disabling
local IRQs for several msecs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@buesch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Redesign the bcm43xx locking.
This is pre-work to get a preemptible periodic work handler.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes PIO mode on the softmac bcm43xx
driver. (A dscape patch will follow).
It mainly fixes endianess issues.
This patch is tested on PowerPC32 and i386.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This bug was caused by the packing of the bcm43xx_dma and bcm43xx_pio
structures into a union.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is the starting point to make the driver out-of-order-MMIO-stores safe.
There are more mmiowb() needed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Import the bcm43xx driver from the upstream sources here:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-20060123.tar.bz2
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Michael Buesch