2010/5/23 Weedy <weedy2887@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2010/5/17 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>: >> What about cutting down the kernel to the absolute minimum required by >> your machine? >> >> Also, Kbuild supports incremental builds as long as you do not "make >> clean" before builds. >> > I just finished the cycle (told you it would take forever on this > crapbook) and this is what I got. To be sure I have done multiple > boots with vmlinuz-2.6.31-rc5fffffffff-01634-geadac6b and > vmlinuz-2.6.31-rc5fffffffff-01635-g56d1de0 and confirmed it broken. > Patching todays compat-wireless tar with the output of "git diff > 56d1de0a21db28e41741cfa0a66e18bc8d920554 > 56d1de0a21db28e41741cfa0a66e18bc8d920554^ >fffffffff.diff " restores > expected functionality (Does this mean I get my name in the kernel > log? :D ). > > $ git bisect bad > 56d1de0a21db28e41741cfa0a66e18bc8d920554 is the first bad commit > commit 56d1de0a21db28e41741cfa0a66e18bc8d920554 > Author: Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon Aug 24 23:00:30 2009 -0400 > > ath5k: clean up filter flags setting > > The maze of if() statements in configure_filter is confusing. > Reorganizing it as a switch statement makes it more apparent what > is going on and reveals several suspicious settings. This has no > functional changes, though it does remove some redundant flags > that are set earlier. > > Also now that we can sleep, protect sc->filter_flags with the > sc lock. > > Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > :040000 040000 1ca00241b99b379f192c1ade63c082955c7dda69 > 1a19187e11210e3c66c224dba62a1896c46d0114 M drivers > Certainly a possible cause. Chances are some of the "redundant" flags weren't so redundant at all... However, the original code was wrong too - I highly doubt we can rely on sc->opmode to set monitor mode filter flags. I will look into this when I get to my Linux box again. -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
