From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
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 20:41:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809062041.06035.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48c2cd1a.pA60sTEK0WsW6wtt%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-06 18:41 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 [this message]
2008-09-06 18:44 ` John W. Linville
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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