linux-kernel - Re: Probe Timeouts with 47afbaf5af9454a7a1a64591e20cbfcc27ca67a8

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Date:	Mon, 11 May 2009 11:33:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
cc:	Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@...il.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, niel.lambrechts@...il.com
Subject: Re: Probe Timeouts with 47afbaf5af9454a7a1a64591e20cbfcc27ca67a8

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> I always only said it was fixed in wireless-testing and that the fix was
> on the way upstream. I have no influence over more.

Well, since I can't seem to reproduce the problems I had, and since it's 
possible that it wasn't the revert as much as just the reboot itself that 
cleared things up for me, right now I can no longer check one way or the 
other. 

Earlier, it looked like just reverting that commit ended up fixing things, 
which made me very unhappy, since:

> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c428c89201a57a0ce24c37ed79e540d1f4101cf3
> 
> What does "older" mean here, and what kernel were you using?

"older" means a few years old. It's a compaq/hp 2510p that I've bug out in 
preparation for late-rc 2.6.30 testing to see that everything works fine.

And the kernel I'm using is top-of-git, so that fix was there.

Which was obviously exactly why I was so unhappy about this, since the 
revert seemed to fix problems for me _despite_ the fix.

But now that I can't re-create it, I must assume that it was some other 
random thing unrelated to the revert.

			Linus
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