From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix reported rx frequency and channel
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:50:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707201950.39353.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46A0F564.2090607@warmcat.com>
On Friday 20 July 2007 19:48:20 Andy Green wrote:
> Actually, I can't read dmesg on my In-laws' box that has the card the
> last few weeks: I read dmesg all the time if I suspect kernel-side
> trouble. It's pretty simple and cheap to do a printk and give someone
> with problems the ability to dig themselves out of the trouble with a
> clue and even a URL in this case.
>
> If the driver is dependent on a particular version of an external file,
> and you can read the version of that file at runtime, you really ought
> to be issuing a diagnostic if the dependency is violated.
Well, alternatively you can help to debug this bug, as this is the only
known bug regarding fw version.
You could get different versions and test them. So kind of bisecting
the actual change version.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-20 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-11 10:38 [PATCH 0/2] Small driver fixes andy
2007-06-11 10:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] zd1211rw-mac80211: return hardware specific tx rate code for rx status andy
2007-07-19 19:10 ` John W. Linville
2007-07-19 21:19 ` Ulrich Kunitz
2007-06-11 10:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix reported rx frequency and channel andy
2007-06-11 11:26 ` Johannes Berg
2007-06-11 11:45 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-19 19:10 ` John W. Linville
2007-07-19 19:39 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-20 6:05 ` Andy Green
2007-07-20 7:37 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-20 13:31 ` John W. Linville
2007-07-20 14:36 ` Larry Finger
2007-07-20 14:47 ` Andy Green
2007-07-20 16:58 ` Larry Finger
2007-07-20 17:36 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-20 17:48 ` Andy Green
2007-07-20 17:50 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-07-20 20:40 ` Johannes Berg
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