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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Cc: Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	at76c503a-develop@lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [at76_usb] kernel panic in update_wstats()
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:49:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1176770966.9269.16.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070417005827.6f74945a@localhost>

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 00:58 +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:

> I missed it, it works now. Thanks Pavel and sorry for the noise. BTW,
> stats are still bogus (link, signal, noise level == 0). But I don't think
> it makes sense to debug this now, as you will probably have to deal with
> mac80211 soon.

If you mean Ad-Hoc, I agree.  Quality of an Ad-Hoc connection is not
well defined.  It's better implemented across the board than for every
driver.

Indeed, the driver is quite "soft", and could be a good candidate for
mac80211 conversion.  Although it wasn't a requirement for submission.

> I had to make a little patch in order to build the driver on a kernel
> version < 2.6.20. I don't think you want to merge this, as you are
> working
> for inclusion into mainline, but in case, here it is:

Correct, it's not what we want at this point, but thanks anyway.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-17  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-15 18:56 [at76_usb] kernel panic in update_wstats() Stefano Brivio
2007-04-16  8:29 ` Guido Guenther
2007-04-16 22:58   ` Stefano Brivio
2007-04-17  0:49     ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2007-04-16  8:30 ` Guido Guenther

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