[Acx100-devel] [PATCH] Large update to acx-20051228

[Andreas M. <an...@us...>]

Hi all,

I admit it publicly: I had too much time during Christmas holidays ;)

Updates in my modified 20051228 version:

- activated acx100 configoption readout, unified acx100/acx111 parsing
- init NULL data template, required for 802.11 power save mode
- return actual, valid txpower levels in range ioctl (from configoption!)
- fix bugs:
  - fatal bug in 802.11 powersave structs
=BB=B7- some missing endianness conversions
- check for sane regulatory domain related settings on both SETting and G=
ETting
- random optimizations making this much enhanced code *smaller* than the
=BB=B7previous version!
- optimized struct layout
- merge acx100_s_init_packet_templates and acx111_s_init_packet_templates
- use kzalloc instead of kmalloc where useful (yes, this driver is Linux =
2.6.x
  only, with x rather large)
- avoid some sprintf() and strlen()
- add support for new get_wireless_stats handling (...silence deprecation=
 warni
ng!)
- add some unlikely()
- lower msleep() value in issue_cmd() in order to speed up card initializ=
ation
=BB=B7time (almost less than 1 second now, on P3/700!). should this lower=
 msleep()
=BB=B7value be made init-only??
- disable get sensitivity ioctl for USB (unfortunately not working yet)
- make sure to call synchronize_irq(), (semi-)required for SMP
- group together some closely related functions
- misc cleanups/code maintenance
- bump release to 0.3.24

So, configoptions are now working for acx100, too, and unified, and
802.11 power save mode actually worked for acx100 when I tested it (large
delays during ping which indicate that it must be active, but I guess the=
se
delays should be much reduced with a properly tuned implementation), but =
it's
not finished and thus not enabled by default.

I will continue work on 802.11 power save mode, probably add support
for non-hardcoded acx111 txpower setting and try to gather configoption
from ACX100 USB, too (if this firmware even implements that :-\).

Andreas Mohr

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