linux-kernel - Re: Probe Timeouts with 47afbaf5af9454a7a1a64591e20cbfcc27ca67a8

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Message-Id: <1242067939.3873.45.camel@johannes.local>
Date:	Mon, 11 May 2009 20:52:19 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
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, 2009-05-11 at 11:33 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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

Ok.

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

Curious really, since with that fix and a revert it would go to -1 dBm.
The only explanation I have is that then the Intel card defaults to some
safe value because it doesn't support values < 0.

johannes

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