linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

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Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:25:46 -0500
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@...imi.it>
Cc:	Chris Clayton <chris2553@...glemail.com>, ivdoorn@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	johannes@...solutions.net
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:51:11AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 08:26:42AM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:36:19 +0000
> > "Chris Clayton" <chris2553@...glemail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 27 135466 rate_change 2 55
> > > 28 135717 tx_rate 2 55
> > > 29 135717 tx_status 0 0
> > > 30 135717 pf_sample 0 3584 1965 0
> > > 31 135717 rate_change 129 -541505508
> > > 32 135968 tx_rate 11 540
> > 
> > Known and fixed. The fix isn't in 2.6.25-rc3 yet, though.
> > 
> > Fix:
> > commit 32720eae675d08990e97bffbf71a31382599cc8a
> > Author: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@...imi.it>
> > Date:   Tue Jan 29 20:29:16 2008 +0100
> > 
> >     rc80211-pid: fix rate adjustment
> 
> And it currently isn't queued for 2.6.25 at all.
> 
> Chris, can you cherry-pick this from the wireless-2.6.26 tree and
> give it a test on your 2.6.25-rc3 tree?  If it resolves a problem
> then I'll queue it to Dave for 2.6.25 (which will probably provoke
> a net-2.6.26 and wireless-2.6.26 rebase).

That might be easier said than done.  It looks like that patch depends
on the big cfg80211 API change queued for 2.6.26.

Stefano offered to rebase that on 2.6.25.  Stefano, could you post
that as part of this thread?

Thanks,

John
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John W. Linville
linville@...driver.com
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