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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: "Michael Büsch" <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, b43-dev@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ssb: fail registration for unknown SPROM revision
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:02:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE55C3B.6020803@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290098865.12596.6.camel@maggie>

On 11/18/2010 10:47 AM, Michael Büsch wrote:
> If it would really succeed to initialize the device, this would be a
> regulatory issue, because the sprom contains various power amplifier
> calibration data. I think it should rather fail and be fixed correctly
> instead of incorrectly using rev1 in that case.

I agree that it is better to fail than use incorrect power data.

Would it be useful if the SPROM data were logged when the revision is crap?

John: could you dump and post the data from yours? I would like to see how bad
it is.

Larry

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-03 22:28 [PATCH] ssb: return -ENOMEM on alloc fail (instead of CRC check's result) Rafał Miłecki
2010-11-03 22:28 ` [PATCH] ssb: fail registration for unknown SPROM revision Rafał Miłecki
2010-11-03 22:36   ` Michael Büsch
2010-11-16 21:23   ` John W. Linville
2010-11-17 17:12     ` Michael Büsch
2010-11-18 16:27       ` John W. Linville
2010-11-18 16:35         ` Michael Büsch
2010-11-18 16:44           ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-11-18 16:47             ` Michael Büsch
2010-11-18 17:02               ` Larry Finger [this message]
2010-11-18 17:07                 ` Michael Büsch
2010-11-18 17:29                   ` Larry Finger
2010-11-18 16:26     ` John W. Linville
2010-11-18 16:35       ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-11-03 22:31 ` [PATCH] ssb: return -ENOMEM on alloc fail (instead of CRC check's result) Rafał Miłecki

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