Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

["Chris Clayton" <chris2553@googlemail.com>]

On 27/02/2008, John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:51:11AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
>  > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:26:42AM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:
>  > > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:36:19 +0000
[...]
>  > >
>  > > Known and fixed. The fix isn't in 2.6.25-rc3 yet, though.
>  > >
>  > > Fix:
>  > > commit 32720eae675d08990e97bffbf71a31382599cc8a
>  > > Author: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
>  > > Date:   Tue Jan 29 20:29:16 2008 +0100
>  > >
>  > >     rc80211-pid: fix rate adjustment
>  >
>  > And it currently isn't queued for 2.6.25 at all.
>  >
>  > Chris, can you cherry-pick this from the wireless-2.6.26 tree and
>  > give it a test on your 2.6.25-rc3 tree?  If it resolves a problem
>  > then I'll queue it to Dave for 2.6.25 (which will probably provoke
>  > a net-2.6.26 and wireless-2.6.26 rebase).
>
>
> That might be easier said than done.  It looks like that patch depends
>  on the big cfg80211 API change queued for 2.6.26.
>

Yes, that's correct. The patch doesn't apply cleanly to -rc3 and,
having inspected at it, it looks too complicated for me to hack in.

>  Stefano offered to rebase that on 2.6.25.  Stefano, could you post
>  that as part of this thread?
>

That would be very helpful.

Thanks
>  Thanks,
>
>
>  John
>  --
>  John W. Linville
>  linville@tuxdriver.com
>


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