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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:12:21 -0700
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: "Steven Noonan" <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: massive unexplained latency in 2.6.27 (rc5, rc6, probably others)
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Steven Noonan
> Will do! And actually, to be precise, the issue occurred not on the
> rmmod, but on the following modprobe for ath9k.

Ah -- it makes it even more interesting now..

>>> Which is far more important, I agree. It's annoying to get speeds
>>> <802.11b on my pre-802.11n capable chipset and network. ;)
>>
>> Yeah exactly, I hope the work we do will get in for 27. We'll see.
>
> Linus has been fairly strict lately, so I am as uncertain as you are.
> It really should get merged, because having 2.6.27 with [partially]
> broken wireless networking is kind of stupid. In the worst case, isn't
> it possible to do a revert to get the old aggregation crap back in?

Well let us finish the patch first in a way that we are happy with it
:) But yeah if its not merged distributions will probably just pick it
up anyway.

  Luis