Re: 2.6.30-rc3: iwlagn probe timeouts (regression)

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 01:20 +0200, Niel Lambrechts wrote:

> Thanks for the help, reverting the commit did indeed fix things for me -
> I tested that earlier this evening with the latest git kernel...

Ok, thanks.

> > Scratch that, try this patch instead. Sorry, stupid mistake! mac80211
> > never asks the driver to set a txpower level, and keeps the variable set
> > to 0, but the driver looks at it anyway. Bug on both accounts, I guess,
> > but mac80211 should set the variable and tell the driver anyway.
> >   
> and so does your patch, although I had to patch by hand, as my version
> of the file still looked like this:
> 
>    local->hw.conf.long_frame_max_tx_count = 4;
>    local->hw.conf.short_frame_max_tx_count = 7;
>    local->hw.conf.radio_enabled = true;
> +   local->user_power_level = -1;
> 
> Can I more or less bargain that this fix will make in in time before the
> final 2.6.30 kernel is released?

Yes. Thanks for testing that too. I'm sorry that it was such a stupid
bug and you spent so much time hunting it.

johannes

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