On Thursday 10 January 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 06:52:40AM -0500, Will Dyson wrote: > > > Hmm. Looking at Linus's tree, I can see that rt61pci is missing at > > least 1 critical fix from Mattias Nissler that has been in > > wireless-2.6 for a long time now. > > > > rt2x00: Allow rt61 to catch up after a missing tx report > > > > I'd be pretty disappointed if we released 2.6.24 without this. It is a > > simple fix for a really obnoxious problem (although one that triggers > > rarely on my hardware). > > This one can be cherry-picked fairly easily for 2.6.24. Ivo, any > reason not to do that? Nope, if it can be merged into 2.6.24 easily it should indeed go upstream. > > There are also a bunch of antenna selection fixes that never went > > upstream. These are required for my card to operate well at rates > > greater than 1Mbit, even when fairly close to the AP. > > Can you identify specific patches? If so I can evaluate whether they > apply easily to 2.6.24 or if they need significant rework. I'm afraid the antenna code concerns the antenna diversity which is quite a lot of code. I'm not sure how easily it can be merged, but I expect it to be somewhat troublesome. Ivo - 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
