[hcflinux-announce] New hcflinmodem-0.9mbsibeta02041300 release

[Marc Boucher]

Hi,

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

    http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv

The highlights of this release are extended support for Mandrake 8.0/8.1
kernels and bug fixes. No new features were added.

A detailed list of changes is included below.

Cheers
Marc


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).