linux-kernel - Re: frustrating ath9k issues in 2.6.27-rc6-00036-ga551b98 (Linus pristine tree)

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Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:38:10 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Steven Noonan <steven@...inklabs.net>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: frustrating ath9k issues in 2.6.27-rc6-00036-ga551b98 (Linus pristine tree)

On Monday, 15 of September 2008, Steven Noonan wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday, 13 of September 2008, Steven Noonan wrote:
> > > I just had another incident where it disassociated and refused to
> > > reassociate. I got about 100 of these in my dmesg (fixed by unloading
> > > and reloading ath9k):
> > 
> > Is this a regression from 2.6.26?
> > 
> 
> ath9k has been recently introduced (i.e. it's new to 2.6.27). So I'm not 
> certain how to answer. Correct me if I'm wrong but a regression is a new  
> bug for a specific component that did not surface in the previous release, 
> correct?

Yes.

> But if the component didn't exist in the previous version, is it still a
> regression? 

No, it isn't considered as a regression.

Thanks,
Rafael
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