linux-kernel - Re: Reverting 5d423 fixes loading of ath9k on Acer Extensa 7630EZ

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0911041551220.31845@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:57:45 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Yannick Roehlly <yannick.roehlly@...e.fr>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@...el.com>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, berndl81@....at,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: Reverting 5d423 fixes loading of ath9k on Acer Extensa 7630EZ



On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> Can you please consider reviewing this issue and help determine if
> this indeed needs to be reverted for 2.6.32 and the next 2.6.31.y.
> 
> I am curious if other devices would work by reverting this as well.
> [ ... ] For details please feel free to check:
> 
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14402

That same commit was the cause for

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13940

and we just increased the rounding to make it go away (see commit 
15b812f1). But that was a hack.

And if that didn't help the ath9k case, then we should just revert 
entirely.

			Linus
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