Re: [PATCH v2 2.6.33] rt2x00: Disable powersaving for rt61pci and rt2800pci.

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

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:30:52PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:10:19PM +0100, Gertjan van Wingerde wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:44 PM, John W. Linville
> > <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 08:33:55PM +0100, Gertjan van Wingerde wrote:
> > >> We've had many reports of rt61pci failures with powersaving enabled.
> > >> Therefore, as a stop-gap measure, disable powersaving of the rt61pci
> > >> until we have found a proper solution.
> > >> Also disable powersaving on rt2800pci as it most probably will show
> > >> the same problem.
> > >>
> > >> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> > >> Signed-off-by: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
> > >> ---
> > >>
> > >> John, this is an urgent fix for 2.6.33.
> > >>
> > >> v2:
> > >> - Handled feedback from Ivo:
> > >>       - Only disable powersaving by default, not permanent.
> > >>       - Also apply to rt2800pci.
> > >
> > > As posted, it will only compile on 2.6.32...
> > >
> > 
> > Me confused, as the patch was against the wireless-2.6.git tree, which
> > I thought was 2.6.33, and not 2.6.32. Please explain to which tree to
> > prepare fixes for 2.6.33.
> 
> That seems rather impossible, since wireless-2.6 failed to build with
> your patch applied. :-)  Perhaps you weren't up-to-date?

For reference:

commit 5be83de54c16944dea9c16c6a5a53c1fa75ed304
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Thu Nov 19 00:56:28 2009 +0100

    cfg80211: convert bools into flags
    
    We've accumulated a number of options for wiphys
    which make more sense as flags as we keep adding
    more. Convert the existing ones.
    
    Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

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