Re: [PATCH] Add vt6656 driver to drivers/staging.

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:42:46PM +0200, Ivo Van Doorn wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Ivo Van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:59 PM, John W. Linville
> > <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:18:56PM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> > > I hope rt2800pci/usb to be included *ASAP*, because rt2800usb supports
> >>> > > more than 1oo USB devices and rt2800pci is included in a lot of
> >>> > > laptops(ask Torvalds [1] [2])
> >>> > >
> >>> > > [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121799144422863&w=2
> >>> > > [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123187052023831&w=2
> >>> >
> >>> > That would be great to have in, what's keeping it from happening?
> >>>
> >>> In short: A stable workable driver.
> >>>
> >>> The rt2800usb driver is pretty far (at least on my testsetup), but
> >>> still has problems with transmitting frames immediately after
> >>> association.
> >>
> >> I read this as "it works, but some frames are lost immediately after
> >> association" -- is that right?
> >
> > It is not "Some frames" it is "All frames" you can't get a DHCP lease,
> > or use a static IP and try to do anything.
> 
> To clarify a bit, this behavior summarizes the first minute after association,
> after that all frames queued in the past minute are bursted out in a single shot
> and normal traffic is possible again.

Ah, well in that case I'd say let's get it into at least wireless-testing.

John
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