netdev - Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-09-24

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Date:	Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:47:54 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Tomas Winkler <tomasw@...il.com>
Cc:	Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@...el.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-09-24

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:57:33PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:41 PM, John W. Linville
> <linville@...driver.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 01:47:02PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 17:17 -0600, John W. Linville wrote:
> >> > Dave,
> >> >
> >> > One more for 2.6.27 -- a fix for a possible interrupt storm.  There is
> >> > even a link in the commit log to a youtube video of the storm in
> >> > progress. :-)
> >> >
> >> > Let me know if there are problems!
> >>
> >> Can you also add this one? It doesn't panic the kernel when a frame from
> >> firmware is invalid.
> >>
> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122219037706528&w=2
> >
> > Is there an open bug report for that anywhere?  Is this something
> > that real users (no offense to Johannes) are likely to hit?
> 
> I'm just exporting the major bugs from our internal database to
> buzilla, 5000 is new so
> we are hitting the problems during testing  before users report them.
> 
> Now I don't know if it was good idea to push the driver upstream same
> time as it hits the market.

You're right -- pushing it sooner rather than sitting on it internally
probably would have helped to give it more visibility sooner.

John
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