linux-kernel - Re: bcm43xx regression in 2.6.24 (with patch)

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Message-ID: <84144f020802230318hec5fe97h84c797a56b0dd5db@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:18:57 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Michael Buesch" <mb@...sch.de>,
	"Alexey Zaytsev" <zaytsev.a@...tei.ru>, "Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: bcm43xx regression in 2.6.24 (with patch)

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>  I have to say, after having observed multiple incidents around b43 in
>  the past few months you are one of the worst driver maintainers i've
>  ever seen on lkml: you are ignoring regressions, you are frequently
>  insulting our testers and now you even have the gall to NAK a patch to
>  _your own buggy driver code_ without providing an alternative fix.
>  Kudos.

Agreed. Alexey, did you identify a specific git commit that caused the
regression? Can we just revert that from 2.6.24? Michael, even if
_you're_ planning to remove bcm43xx we must not let it regress until
it's gone.
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