2010/11/4 Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Rogerio Luz Coelho > <rogluz.news@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> No effect is better than "regression" right? >> >> I am not saying the chip got magically better, it still seems a cheap >> POS, but with Cascardo's patch is as good as the Win7 driver here. > > i'll have to read the Ubuntu launchpad thread a bit, but "no effect" > patches need to be clearly documented, etc because > (1) code stays in the kernel for a long time (years) and get modified, > re-factored, etc over time and one day somebody might need to > continue/modify/change a "no effect" patch and need to know why it was > included and what impact further changes. > (2) "no effect" really meant "no known effect" (yet). > But that's the point ... no effect to Larry that has an external card is ok, but for my internal card the patch made everything better (more so, now the box is useable again), so even if it is just 1 person (or vendor) if the patch is "no effect" for the rest of the functionality it should be added to mainline (al least IMHO) Rogerio -- 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
