On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 October 2009 18:55:23 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> I hear fishing in Poland is great this time of year. > > It got quite cold this week so I thought that I would try to fish > the commit that broke Atheros AR9285 in Linus' tree (works in 2.6.31) > and make recent kernels finally work on my laptop.. > > Seems like there are two regressions actually: > > - later one making association/authentication impossible And you reported this when and where? > - earlier one making transfers stall And you reported this when and where? Curious how the issues you mention now spreading across sound and wireless do not get fixed or seriously addressed. Have you considered your tactics are perhaps not the best? Have you tested newer kernels for ar9285? If there are regressions obviously they should be fixed but without proper attention to the issues they obviously cannot be fixed. > There is also a ton of unrelated and related (mac80211) problems in > between so the whole experience to trace regressions down is a real > hell (I went through like 40 kernels already).. I do agree there has been a hell of a lot of changes on mac80211/cfg80211 over the last few kernels and you can argue whether or not this has been a good thing -- personally I think it has had its negative impact on users on older kernels but I do value the new changes and most major changes have gone in right after the merge window without opposition. When there are issues I at least do believe we are attentive enough to help users and solve them on wireless and contrary to staging you will at least have a larger group of members working on the same wireless subsystem rather than addressing pigeon hole solutions. If you don't voice your own opinions and provide constructive criticism instead of pointless and side tracked rants you are not going to accomplish shit. So if you want to want to work on staging -- go at it -- but don't moan and bitch about how wireless proper is being treated if you are not willing to man up and do something about it. > Oh, there is also an ath9k slab corruption already in 2.6.31 (I got > it debugged initially though).. We track reported ath9k bugs here: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k/bugs When there is a bug report we follow up on it. > However today it got a bit warmer and the snow is almost gone so > I think that I'm going to take your advice after using the shortcut > solution for my wireless problems.. > > I'll just plug that cheap rt3070 stick laying around and modprobe > that crappy rt2870sta.. Good luck with that buddy. Luis -- 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
