From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, hintak_leung@yahoo.co.uk,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] rtl8187: Realtek 8187B wireless support with product id0x8197/0x8189
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:12:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1214424755.9990.11.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48628D9A.5090502@lwfinger.net>
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 13:25 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> For the review process, I have split the patch into 5 parts. Each step
> compiles, thus bisection will be preserved. With this change, the
> largest of the pieces is a little under 15KiB. Is this small enough?
> Further splitting would be a lot more difficult.
That's very impressive, actually. Still the combined amount of the
changes makes me nervous.
> As to the quality of the patch, it barely works on my device. RX seems
> to be OK except for the wireless statistics, but I can associate only
> about 1 try in 10. Once I get that problem squared away, then I can
> work on the timing. I really would like to get this into
> wireless-testing ASAP.
I really appreciate your efforts.
> I don't have an 8187 device either, and will have to rely on someone
> else for that part of the testing.
I've just bought a WiBee on eBay, which is said to be rtl8187 based.
Perhaps I'll be able to test it a week from now.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-25 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-25 16:59 [RFC] rtl8187: Realtek 8187B wireless support with product id0x8197/0x8189 Larry.Finger
2008-06-25 17:07 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-25 17:21 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-25 17:36 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-25 17:44 ` Larry Finger
2008-06-25 17:57 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-06-25 18:25 ` Larry Finger
2008-06-25 20:12 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
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