linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer

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Message-ID: <520b60a90712171404v647d3d62h69e61d223040779b@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:04:37 -0500
From:	mvtodevnull@...il.com
To:	"Michael Buesch" <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	"Larry Finger" <larry.finger@...inger.net>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"Daniel Walker" <dwalker@...sta.com>,
	"Ray Lee" <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
	"Simon Holm Thøgersen" <odie@...aau.dk>,
	matthias.kaehlcke@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux@...mer.net, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	kjwinchester@...il.com, jonathan@...masters.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: wireless: bcm43xx: big_buffer_sem semaphore to mutex

On Dec 17, 2007 5:35 AM,  <mvtodevnull@...il.com> wrote:
> If this is a mac80211 related problem, then other systems connecting
> to the same ap and using mac80211 would also be affected? Like I said
> earlier, there are five machines connecting to this ap, and I just
> realized one of them has a ralink card that uses the rt2x00 driver,
> which I believe is mac80211. That system doesn't have this problem,
> which leads me to believe it may not be mac80211 after all, although I
> wouldn't rule it out.
>

This also doesn't seem to be related to firmware version. I forced my
device to use b43legacy, and the results were identical with the
version 3 firmware.
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