linux-kernel - Re: rt2x00: slow wifi with correct basic rate bitmap (was Re: stable? quality assurance?)

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Date:	Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:06:43 +0200
From:	Alejandro Riveira Fernández 
	<ariveira@...il.com>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Martin Steigerwald <Martin@...htvoll.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rt2x00: slow wifi with correct basic rate bitmap (was Re:
 stable? quality assurance?)

El Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:50:14 +0200
Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> escribió:

> Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote:
> >  I for one stopped booting into -rc kernels.
> >  The fact that still have to patch my kernels with a *one* liner
> >  since 2.6.29 kernel [1] does not give me confidence on the "test
> >  report/bisect and it will be fixed" promise some have made in this
> >  threath
> >  
> >  [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13362
> 
> There were promises made in this thread?  Then I must have read a
> different mailinglist or so.

 Ok no promises.
 Maybe I read to much in to Mr Tso previous mail. My apologies
 [quote]
 > So I tend to use -rc3, -rc4, and -rc5 kernels on my laptops, and when
 > I find bugs, I report them and I help fix them.  If more people did
 > that, then the 2.6.X.0 releases would be more stable.  But kernel
 > development is a volunteer effort, so it's up to the volunteers to
 > test and fix bugs during the rc4, -rc5 and -rc6 time frame. 
 
 [...]
 > [...]                         Linux may be a very good bargain (look
 > at how much Oracle has increased its support contracts for Solaris!),
 > but it's still not a free lunch.  At the end of the day, you get what
 > you put into it.

  I tested the kernels i reported the bugs and helped (to the best of my
  knowledge; I'm not a programmer) 
  I got no result.

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