linux-kernel - Re: [Rt2400-devel] Bug in rt2x00 rt73usb driver in latest git kernel

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Date:	Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:04:08 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>
Cc:	rt2400-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Paul Eddington <eddingtonpaul@...glemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Iwo Mergler <iwo@...l-direct.com.au>
Subject: Re: [Rt2400-devel] Bug in rt2x00 rt73usb driver in latest git
	kernel

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 08:53:39PM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> On Friday 26 September 2008, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > On Friday 26 September 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > > Well, according to the information I've received from Paul this particular
> > > problem is a regression from 2.6.26, so it's been added to the list of recent
> > > regressions.
> > 
> > Seriously, this error message is the most annoying rt2x00 error message _ever_.
> > It should have been fixed 3 kernels ago, but it keeps popping up again and again.
> > 
> > Paul, what is the git commit id with which you encountered this bug?
> 
> Oh and please test rt2x00.git as well, since some patches which should fix this issue
> are in there (and in wireless-testing.git) but not in Linus' tree since they are scheduled
> for 2.6.28.

Can you identify which fixes those are likely to be?

John

P.S.  Of course, as you pointed out this isn't a new bug.  Since it
existed in 2.6.26, then technically it isn't a regression under
current merging practices as I understand them.
-- 
John W. Linville		Linux should be at the core
linville@...driver.com			of your literate lifestyle.
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