Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH v2] ath5k: fix I/Q calibration (for real)

[Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>]

On Tuesday 09 March 2010 12:32:33 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> wrote:
> >>>> > as i said, in my point of view ath5k has several problems right now
> >>>> > (performace and stability), and i guess nobody will be using it
> >>>> > seriously in actual production use (does anyone?).
> > 
> > Yes, people do use ath5k in production.  Some large companies.
> > 
> >>>> 2.6.32 will be used by a lot of "enterprise" releases, I'd prefer
> >>>> connection stability fixes do indeed go in for 2.6.32 for ath5k
> >>> 
> >>> sure, as i said, i don't mind. :)
> >> 
> >> Alright lets skip stable for this.
> > 
> > Wow this whole line of conversation is confusing :)
> 
> Hehe. sorry well I was talking to Bruno about the "stable"
> qualifications of this fix, and it doesn't fix an oops or serious bug,
> but it certainly can improve performance but I haven't myself seen
> numbers and would hate to justify just about pushing anything
> upstream.
> 
> > If this fixes a calibration bug it needs to go to stable.
> 
> Perhaps a little more elaboration on the commit log on the impact and
> how this helps and how much would help.

ok. to stop the confusion, i'll add cc: stable.

bruno