[hcflinux] [hcflinux-announce] New hcflinmodem-0.92mbsibeta02050600 release

[Marc Boucher]

Hi,

A new experimental version of the Conexant HCF (controllerless) driver for
Linux is now available from

        http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv

This is a minor update which addresses a few portability and installation
issues.  The detailed list of changes is available below.

Marc


Mon May 06 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Released hcflinmodem-0.92mbsibeta02050600.

Mon May 06 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* scripts/hcfconfig.in: check_unsupported(): some 127a:102x devices
	actually work.
	* modules/osspec/include/oscompat.h: fixed memcpy issue for 2.2 users.

Sun May 05 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Released hcflinmodem-0.92mbsibeta02050500.

Sun May 05 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Changed ttyHCF0 device name to ttySHCF0 for compatibility with wvdial.

Fri Apr 26 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* modules/osspec/include/osuniqredef.h: added to solve name collision
	problem with HSF and other modules.

Fri Apr 26 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* scripts/hsfconfig.in: added OSKERNTYPE, which is set to the type
	of kernel installed, not the architecture.
	* modules/makefile: add i386 to REDHAT_MACHINES to accomodate people
	still running i386 kernels and link-identical-binaries to save space..

Wed Apr 25 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Released hcflinmodem-0.91mbsibeta02042500.

Wed Apr 24 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* imported/hcfengine.O: merged in new Conexant modem code, added
	SmartDAA support.
	* scripts/hcfconfig.in: remove SmartDAA devices from check_unsupported().
	* inf/: reorganized inf files, removed unnecessary sections,
	added SmartDAA versions.
	* modules/serial_hcf.c: handle new-style COMCTRL_EVT_RINGS events.

Mon Apr 22 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* scripts/hcfconfig.in: re-enabled creation of /dev/modem symlink
	* Released hcflinmodem-0.9mbsibeta02042201.

Mon Apr 22 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Released hcflinmodem-0.9mbsibeta02042200.

Sun Apr 21 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* modules/serial_hcf.c: Added /proc/driver/hcf/0/lastcallstatus and
	loglastcallstatus parameter, which when set to a non-zero value will
	make the driver automatically log the last call status (AT#UG) info.
	* modules/osspec/osnvm.c: Use AT&D2 by default.
	* imported/hcfengine.O: silenced various debug messages confusing users.
	* scripts/hcfconfig.in: added check_unsupported(), workaround for
	bash's limited printf builtin and other small usability improvements.
	* modules/common.mak: changed default KERNELSRC to match hcfconfig.

Sat Apr 20 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* modules/osspec/osstdio.c: if f_op->llseek is NULL, call default_llseek.
	(Thanks to Gratiniano S. de Haro for reporting this problem)
	* scripts/hcfconfig.in: cut down size of default --dumpdiag output.

Wed Apr 13 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Released hcflinmodem-0.9mbsibeta02041300.

Wed Apr 12 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* modules/makefile: revamped directory structure for binaries and added
	several mandrake kernels.
	* makefile: add missing bracket to RPMTOPDIRDEFINED test.
	* scripts/hcfconfig.in: create /lib/modules/.../misc directory if it
	doesn't exist and add build kernel-source check.
	* scripts/hcfconfig.in: really fix broken pipe messages in get_inf_section

Wed Apr 05 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Released hcflinmodem-0.9mbsibeta02040500.

Wed Apr 03 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Released hcflinmodem-0.9mbsibeta02040300.

Wed Apr 03 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* scripts/hcfconfig.in: add check for binary modules with OSKERNVERS_NODASH.
	* modules/osspec/osservices.c: OsSleep() workaround to prevent crashes
	on < 2.2.20 kernels.

Tue Mar 26 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* hcflinmodem.spec.in, makefile: add distribution-specific
	packages containing module binaries for default kernels.

	* modules/common.mak: add DISTRO_CFLAGS

	* modules/makefile: add rules to build binaries for mainstream
	distributions.

Sun Mar 24 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Released hcflinmodem-0.9mbsibeta02032400.

Sun Mar 24 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* modules/osspec/osnvm.c: Added check for OsFOpen() return value.
	* Improved test for awk strtonum() workaround.
	(Thanks to Gratiniano S. de Haro)

Fri Mar 08 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Released hcflinmodem-0.9mbsibeta02030801.

Fri Mar 08 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* scripts/hcfconfig.in: workaround for awks that don't support strtonum().

Fri Mar 08 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Released hcflinmodem-0.9mbsibeta02030800.

Fri Mar 08 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* hcflinmodem.spec.in: only run hcfconfig --auto in %post if
	HCF_AUTOCONFIG env variable is set, so as to match INSTALL documentation.
	* modules/serial_hcf.c: PCI vendor and device IDs of HCF modem can be
	explicitely passed as modules parameters named pcivendorid and pcideviceid.
	* T__ERROR messages always printk()ed when USE_TRACE_ONLY_ERRORS defined.
	* /devicemanager/asiclib.c: fixed crash upon SysCreateDevResources()
	failure due to AsicDisableHWEvent() being called.
	* modules/osspec/osservices.c: OsSleep() should call schedule_timeout()
	or mdelay(), not udelay().

Tue Mar 05 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Released hcflinmodem-0.9mbsibeta02030500.

Tue Mar 05 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Added "Conflicts: hsflinmodem" to RPM spec file as a temporary
	measure until the symbol name collisions are fixed.
	* scripts/hcfconfig.in: get_inf_section(): redirect stderr to /dev/null
	for the preprocess_inf() call to ignore broken pipe errors.

Fri Mar 01 2002 Marc Boucher <marc+hcf at mbsi.ca>
	* Initial beta version (hcflinmodem-0.9mbsibeta02030100).
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