On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Hin-Tak Leung<hintak.leung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Hin-Tak Leung<hintak.leung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Tobias >>>> Schlemmer<keinstein_junior@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I have some problem with my rtl8187b device. It is included in my laptop >>>>> running Ubuntu linux 2.6.28. I've tested several compat-wireless releases >>>>> including 2.6.30 and 2.6.31-rc7. >>>> >>>> Hmm, are compat-wireless versioned against kernels? >>> >>> The stable ones are: >>> >>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/ >>> >>> Luis >>> >> >> Thanks - it is new addition to the web-site :-), I see. > > Yup, and when 2.6.32-rc1 is released we'll have another > compat-wireless tarball made from that as well. > >> Anyway, Larry >> and Herton have made more changes/improvements in rtl8187 in >> latest-and-greatest than 2.6.31-rc7... > > Thanks for the heads up, what I recommend is you edit the > wireless.kernel.org wiki page for rtl8187 and put there a section of > 'recommended version' and explain what kernel release you expect to > work the best, and if you do recommend latest and greatest put that on > the wiki. This is what we did for ath9k as ath9k changes kept coming > in for ath9k through kernel releases and distributions were still on > old versions of it. What I hope is eventually users will just know to > check wireless.kernel.org driver page for details for their own > drivers. > > Luis > I just took a look at the history - there aren't obvious bug fixes, a bunch of work queue-related changes from you & Johannes; feature-wise, Larry added LED blinking after 2.6.30, and Herton added rfkill support quite recently after 2.6.31-rc7 . But no, there isn't any change that would affect tx level beyond 2.6.31-rc7, I think. -- 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
