On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 12:40:04AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Saturday 06 September 2008 23:51:22 Larry Finger wrote: > > A coding error present since b43legacy was incorporated into the > > kernel has prevented the driver from using the rate-setting mechanism > > of mac80211. The driver has been forced to remain at a 1 Mb/s rate. > > > > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.26], [2.6.25] > > Reviewed-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > > John, > > > > This is a bug, not a regression. I guess under the new rules that it > > is 2.6.28 material. > > I wonder what the -stable rules are. Bug fixes, not new features, it's pretty simple :) > It seems really screwed to me to avoid applying the fix to 2.6.27, > but still apply it to 2.6.25/26-stable. I have to wait until it is in upstream before adding it to the -stable tree, so this will not happen. > I'd like to see this patch in .25, .26 and .27, however I'm not sure > what the rules are. > > For reference: > Three people agree on the correctness of the patch, it's a oneliner > and it's tested to fix the bug. However it is not a regression. The > bug is in there since day-0 of b43legacy. But this fix improves > TX rates a lot. If it goes into .27, please forward it on to stable@xxxxxxxxxx so we can include it in older releases. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
