From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43legacy: Fix failure in rate-adjustment mechanism
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:44:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080906184408.GA2923@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809062041.06035.mb@bu3sch.de>
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 08:41:05PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Saturday 06 September 2008 20:34:02 Larry Finger wrote:
> > A coding error present since b43legacy was incorporated into the
> > kernel has prevented the driver from using the rate-setting mechanism
> > of mac80211. The driver has been forced to remain at a 1 Mb/s rate.
>
> Does version3 firmware have a different bitlayout for the status?
>
> > Although this is not strictly a regression, it is a bug. I hope
> > it can be sent to 2.6.27.
>
> The new rules don't allow us to fix bugs after the merge window.
> Only regressions.
I imagine the powers that be would claim it isn't a new rule, but it
is a new enforcement policy...
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-07 2:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-06 18:34 [PATCH] b43legacy: Fix failure in rate-adjustment mechanism Larry Finger
2008-09-06 18:41 ` Michael Buesch
2008-09-06 18:44 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2008-09-06 18:52 ` Larry Finger
2008-09-06 18:55 ` Michael Buesch
2008-09-06 18:57 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-06 19:04 ` Michael Buesch
2008-09-06 19:36 ` Larry Finger
2008-09-06 19:41 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-06 19:59 ` Larry Finger
2008-09-06 20:02 ` Johannes Berg
2008-09-06 20:07 ` Michael Buesch
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