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From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: jt@hpl.hp.com
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc regression: bcm43xx does not work after commit 4cf92a3c
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:03:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F09167.5020606@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070918174202.GB1466@bougret.hpl.hp.com>

Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 
> 	Could you be more explicit ? Reverting the patch will just
> bring back the old bug, and the old code was obviously wrong. I don't
> like the idea of trading one bug for another bug. It looks to me like
> nobody knows what's exactly happening in the driver and we are just
> trying random fixes and see what breaks.
> 	Could you figure out what's exactly happening and make a
> proper fix ?
> 	Regards,

It took me nearly two days, but I finally found the correct fix for the bug that made it impossible
to set the essid. The resulting patch has been sent to John.

Larry

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-19  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070917.042418.19962472.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2007-09-17 16:54 ` 2.6.23-rc regression: bcm43xx does not work after commit 4cf92a3c Jean Tourrilhes
2007-09-17 17:27   ` Larry Finger
2007-09-18  4:33   ` Larry Finger
2007-09-18 17:42     ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-09-18 18:04       ` Michael Buesch
2007-09-19  3:03       ` Larry Finger [this message]
2007-09-19 16:32         ` Jean Tourrilhes
2007-09-25  2:50           ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-09-25  3:06             ` Larry Finger
2007-09-25  3:29               ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2007-09-27 12:05                 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明

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