From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: [PATCH] softmac: Fix WX and association related races Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:14:16 +0200 Message-ID: <200609281914.17041.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <200609271726.34305.mb@bu3sch.de> <20060928163135.GH8121@knob.reflex> <451C0090.10109@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dan Williams , linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Berg , Jason Lunz Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:52942 "EHLO bu3sch.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751324AbWI1RPT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:15:19 -0400 To: Larry Finger In-Reply-To: <451C0090.10109@lwfinger.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thursday 28 September 2006 19:04, Larry Finger wrote: > Jason Lunz wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:52:24AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > >> I had very good luck with my first AP, a Linksys WRT54G V1, that I > >> bought a second when the power supply failed in the first. Little did > >> I know that a VxWorks license costs less than the extra memory needed > >> to run Linux. Or was it to defeat the open-source alternatives for the > >> AP? > > > > last I checked, linksys (cisco?) still sells the linux-compatible > > version as the WRT54GL. <- note the extra 'L'. > > I know, but have decided to stay with V5 (and bitch a lot) as others are likely to suffer from the > same problems as I do. As many of them would never try alternate firmware, we need to provide the > workarounds. If I'm using one of the brain-dead APs, I get the symptoms first hand and can tell when > they are fixed. Well. You say that it works with your AP and without my patch, but not with the patch. I'd say it works by pure luck. I don't think my patch changes any semantics. It just properly protects some parts from racing. Maybe you actually benefit from these races and softmac magically "races you the correct result" ;) Or do you notice something that changes semantics? -- Greetings Michael.