From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.128.189]:3566 "EHLO fk-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755256AbYAJR3J (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:29:09 -0500 Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id z23so542993fkz.5 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:29:07 -0800 (PST) To: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [Rt2400-devel] Please pull 'upstream' branch of rt2x00 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:29:02 +0100 Cc: Will Dyson , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, rt2400-devel@lists.sourceforge.net References: <200801062337.35904.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <8e6f94720801100352t615025b6j1c2cc0081626fee5@mail.gmail.com> <20080110154654.GC3109@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20080110154654.GC3109@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200801101829.02438.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (sfid-20080110_172913_016501_24F05794) From: Ivo van Doorn Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 10 January 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 06:52:40AM -0500, Will Dyson wrote: > > > Hmm. Looking at Linus's tree, I can see that rt61pci is missing at > > least 1 critical fix from Mattias Nissler that has been in > > wireless-2.6 for a long time now. > > > > rt2x00: Allow rt61 to catch up after a missing tx report > > > > I'd be pretty disappointed if we released 2.6.24 without this. It is a > > simple fix for a really obnoxious problem (although one that triggers > > rarely on my hardware). > > This one can be cherry-picked fairly easily for 2.6.24. Ivo, any > reason not to do that? Nope, if it can be merged into 2.6.24 easily it should indeed go upstream. > > There are also a bunch of antenna selection fixes that never went > > upstream. These are required for my card to operate well at rates > > greater than 1Mbit, even when fairly close to the AP. > > Can you identify specific patches? If so I can evaluate whether they > apply easily to 2.6.24 or if they need significant rework. I'm afraid the antenna code concerns the antenna diversity which is quite a lot of code. I'm not sure how easily it can be merged, but I expect it to be somewhat troublesome. Ivo