linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.27-rc1: zd1211rw association fails

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:52:06 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>,
	Alistair John Strachan <alistair@...zero.co.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	dsd@...too.org, kune@...ne-taler.de, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc1: zd1211rw association fails

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:15:06PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > > Yeah, it's really too bad -rc1 got released just before you were able
> > > to post the fix to this, since if there were 100 million people who
> > > were trying out kernels starting with -git7 that use wireless, there
> > > will probably be 200 million people trying out -rc1.  :-)
> > > 
> > > Thanks for finding and fixing it, though.  I stopped trying out
> > > kernels after -git6 since I was travelling at OSCON, and not having
> > > wireless was a show-stopper for me....
> > 
> > If everybody's going to decide now to hit on _me_, I'll point out that
> > davem's MQ TX changes broke it
> 
> Of course that's not strictly true, it had been broken forever, it just
> happened to never show up before. And I mean forever, the original
> devicescape code that got in was already broken.

FWIW, I think the MQ stuff didn't spend much (or any) time in -next...

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