iwi driver port - ready for review

[Tomaž Borštnar]

Andrew Atrens wrote:

>>> If you're interested in giving it a try.
>> when kldload it spits few lines about USB devices, but I am used to this
>> :)
> 
> Can you send me this output ?

uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0x1200-0x121f at
device
29.0 on pci0
uhci0: Could not allocate irq
device_probe_and_attach: uhci0 attach returned 6
uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0x1600-0x161f at
device
29.1 on pci0
uhci0: Could not allocate irq
device_probe_and_attach: uhci0 attach returned 6
uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0x1700-0x171f at
device
29.2 on pci0
uhci0: Could not allocate irq
device_probe_and_attach: uhci0 attach returned 6
iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG MiniPCI> mem 0xe0000000-0xe0000fff irq
11 at
 device 2.0 on pci1
iwi0: MAC address: 00:0e:35:01:09:bb
iwi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
iwi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps
36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps

> 
>  
>> it crashed once while radio was off and I did ifconfig down/up
> 
> Hmm. I need more details. I know that I fixed a bug in that I needed
> locking in iwi_watchdog(). But I'm not sure if this failure mode is the
> same...

I could not crash it by the same procedure again with 1.1.3. I managed to
crash it once by doing reboot inside console in KDE while wireless was
operational. There were lines for iwi driver so it appears to be part of
the problem, but nevertheles the driver appears to be stable so far.


> 
> I just put up a new version on the website -
> 
> http://www.ncf.ca/~fd473
> 
> Thanks for the URL correction :)

you even got to DragonFly BSD Digest :)

Tomaž