[PATCH] [Hardy SRU] UBUNTU: SAUCE: upgrade Broadcom 'wl' driver to new release: 5.10.91.9.

[manoj.iyer at canonical.com]

Does this mean that we can stop blacklisting the wl drivers in favor of 
ssb in jockey? Will the upgrade help 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/332506 ?

Cheers
--- manjo

On Wed, 13 May 2009, Tim Gardner wrote:

> Tony Espy wrote:
>> Mario Limonciello wrote:
>>> Hi  Guys:
>>>
>>> It would be ideal to update 9.04 with this driver as well as it supports
>>> some upcoming Broadcom hardware that will be present on Dell platforms
>>> this summer.
>>
>> I started working on this over the weekend, but due changes with how
>> l-r-m is built for both 8.10 and 9.04, wasn't able to cleanly pull the
>> patches for 8.04 forward.
>>
>> [ Tim / Stefan, I'll still do this if one of you could help with setting
>> up the patch mechanism for the intrepid/jaunty l-r-m git trees.
>> Otherwise, if omne of you wants to take it, that's fine with me too. ]
>>
>> Thanks,
>> /tony
>>
>>
>
> The following changes since commit f242f8443444322ee9806c6e1f356b9bd1a0d1e8:
>  Stefan Bader (1):
>        UBUNTU: Update commit templates to use BugLink instead of Bug
> Ignore: yes
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>  git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-jaunty-lrm lp372425
>
> Tim Gardner (2):
>      UBUNTU: Added support for a patch directory per sub-project
>      UBUNTU: Update Broadcom wl to 5.10.91.9
>
> debian/rules.d/2-binary-arch.mk                    |   15 ++-
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/BOM                     |    5 -
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/BOM.txt                 |   25 +++
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/Makefile                |    3 +-
> .../broadcom/lib/wlc_hybrid.o_shipped_i386         |  Bin 1535712 ->
> 1328208 bytes
> .../broadcom/lib/wlc_hybrid.o_shipped_x86_64       |  Bin 1671488 ->
> 1463976 bytes
> .../broadcom/patches/0001-MODULE_LICENSE.patch     |   13 ++
> .../broadcom/patches/0002-Makefile.patch           |   27 +++
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/src/include/bcmdefs.h   |    8 +-
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/src/include/bcmwifi.h   |    3 +-
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/src/include/epivers.h   |   10 +-
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/src/include/osl.h       |    2 +-
> .../broadcom/src/include/proto/802.11.h            |    2 +-
> .../broadcom/src/include/proto/bcmevent.h          |    7 +-
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/src/include/typedefs.h  |    4 +-
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/src/include/wlioctl.h   |   21 ++-
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/src/shared/linux_osl.c  |    4 +-
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/src/wl/sys/wl_export.h  |    2 +-
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.c      |   12 +-
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.h      |    2 +-
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c   |  184
> ++++++--------------
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.h   |   84 +++++++++-
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/src/wl/sys/wlc_pub.h    |    3 +-
> 23 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/BOM
> create mode 100644 ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/BOM.txt
> mode change 100755 => 100644 ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/lib/LICENSE.txt
> create mode 100644
> ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/patches/0001-MODULE_LICENSE.patch
> create mode 100644 ubuntu-restricted/broadcom/patches/0002-Makefile.patch
>
>
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