From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-09-24 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:47:54 -0400 Message-ID: <20080925154753.GA3277@tuxdriver.com> References: <20080924231720.GD3639@tuxdriver.com> <1222321622.2510.455.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> <20080925114133.GA5044@tuxdriver.com> <1ba2fa240809250757x32aa450k523d71e555c221e4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Zhu Yi , "davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org" , "linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" To: Tomas Winkler Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1ba2fa240809250757x32aa450k523d71e555c221e4-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:57:33PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:41 PM, John W. Linville > wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 01:47:02PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > >> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 17:17 -0600, John W. Linville wrote: > >> > Dave, > >> > > >> > One more for 2.6.27 -- a fix for a possible interrupt storm. There is > >> > even a link in the commit log to a youtube video of the storm in > >> > progress. :-) > >> > > >> > Let me know if there are problems! > >> > >> Can you also add this one? It doesn't panic the kernel when a frame from > >> firmware is invalid. > >> > >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122219037706528&w=2 > > > > Is there an open bug report for that anywhere? Is this something > > that real users (no offense to Johannes) are likely to hit? > > I'm just exporting the major bugs from our internal database to > buzilla, 5000 is new so > we are hitting the problems during testing before users report them. > > Now I don't know if it was good idea to push the driver upstream same > time as it hits the market. You're right -- pushing it sooner rather than sitting on it internally probably would have helped to give it more visibility sooner. John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org of your literate lifestyle. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html