From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix specs typo for baseband attenuation
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:26:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070726192601.GD6068@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46A8ECD6.30204@lwfinger.net>
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 01:49:58PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
> >
> >Hmmm...well, if you asked to revert it on bcm43xx, why is it appropriate
> >here?
>
> AFAIK, the V4 specs have always had the typo, thus there was no patch
> introducing this error - it is original. On the other hand, the V3 specs
> were modified fairly late in the process, which led to the bcm43xx patch
> that needed to be reverted. I suspect that the V3 changes may have been the
> result of making them match the V4 specs. If that is the case, it made both
> of them wrong.
>
> No matter, the change is needed to make some older cards work. Now I know
> why bcm43xx-mac80211 never worked on my BCM4306 until today.
OK, I get it...I was looking at the patch dwmw2 slipped into F-7 and
then in my head reverting that (i.e. reversing the reverse patch) --
my bad!
Michael, unless you plan to push soon I'll just apply the new patch
to wireless-dev more-or-less immediately?
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-26 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-26 16:33 [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix specs typo for baseband attenuation Larry Finger
2007-07-26 17:21 ` John W. Linville
2007-07-26 17:56 ` Larry Finger
2007-07-26 18:13 ` John W. Linville
2007-07-26 18:49 ` Larry Finger
2007-07-26 19:26 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-07-26 19:38 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-27 9:18 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-27 9:20 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-29 11:59 ` Paul TBBle Hampson
2007-07-29 12:38 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-26 17:31 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-26 18:03 ` Larry Finger
2007-07-26 18:11 ` Michael Buesch
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