From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] softmac: Fix inability to associate with WEP networks, and the inability to change essid
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:48:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709191548.20528.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46f090e4.wi04CrQ11sG6gLcC%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 05:00:52 Larry Finger wrote:
> Commit 4cf92a3c was submitted as a fix for bug #8686 at bugzilla.kernel.org
> (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8686). Unfortunately, the fix led to
> a new bug, reported by Yoshifuji Hideaki, that prevented association for WEP
> encrypted networks that use ifconfig to control the device. This patch effectively
> reverts the earlier commit and does a proper fix for bug #8686.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> ---
>
> John,
>
> This fix replaces my earlier request for reversion of commit 4cf92a3c. As stated
> above, it effectively does the reversion, but it also fixes the original bug.
Looks good and might be OK. Though, I won't ack this, as I don't really
understand the statemachine. So if it works and fixes both bugs, please merge
this into mainline and (more important) into -stable.
--
Greetings Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-19 13:51 UTC|newest]
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2007-09-19 3:00 [PATCH] softmac: Fix inability to associate with WEP networks, and the inability to change essid Larry Finger
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