linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.27-rc7 vs 2.6.29 Regresion] Wifi Network Slownes rt2500pci

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Date:	Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:22:33 +0200
From:	Alejandro Riveira Fernández 
	<alejandro.riveira@...il.com>
To:	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linville@...driver.com, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: [2.6.27-rc7 vs 2.6.29 Regresion] Wifi Network Slownes rt2500pci

El mar, 02-06-2009 a las 23:53 +0200, Ivo van Doorn escribió:

> > So my chip works better with incorrect values written in its registers?
> 
> Apparently, probably because some other register is set to an incorrect value,
> but I have no idea which one that would be.

Could the fact that i dual boot with windows (and use the windows
driver) have someting to do with it ?

> 
> > What about other chips out there do they prefer wrong values too ;)
> > Maybe what we thought wrong values are not that wrong ?
> 
> They are wrong. That exact register initialization is pretty straightforward
> in the original Ralink driver on which rt2x00 is based.
> 
> Ivo
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