Re: brcmsmac still woes, possible regression?

[Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>]

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:23:43PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 11:41 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > Hi Arend,
> > 
> > Arend van Spriel wrote, about a month ago[1]:
> > 
> >> I sent the patch to Camaleón to test it before sending out the
> >> patch. So the answer it definitely no. I wanted to get it into rc1,
> >> but we missed that.
> > 
> > Any news?  If there's a patch that goes in the right direction with
> > known problems I'd still be interested in it, among other reasons
> > because it would make the bug more concrete and make it easier to
> > think about possible fixes.
> 
> Well, there is the short term fix, which is already upstream and moved
> to stable. The long term fix for which Seth Forshee (Canonical) did a
> great job is reviewed over here, but it involves regulatory related code
> so it needs discussions with our compliance team and supervisor. So that
> causes some lag time.

The patches I sent still relies on the transmit-after-beacon fix, as I
preserved the behavior of muting tx if the channel is passive scan. I
*think* this isn't actually necessary, but I'd have to investigate a
little further to be certain.

Seth