On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:33:56PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > John, > > Yoshifuji Hideaki reported that commit 4cf92a3c broke the bcm43xx driver. I was able to duplicate > the problem with WEP encryption and ifconfig control of the device. The problem does not happen with > WPA or when using NetworkManager with WEP. > > This patch was supposed to be a fix for the bug reported at > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8686; however, it does not. > > This commit should be reverted before 2.6.23 is released. > > Thanks, > > Larry Larry, Could you be more explicit ? Reverting the patch will just bring back the old bug, and the old code was obviously wrong. I don't like the idea of trading one bug for another bug. It looks to me like nobody knows what's exactly happening in the driver and we are just trying random fixes and see what breaks. Could you figure out what's exactly happening and make a proper fix ? Regards, Jean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
