Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:47:54 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-09-24 |
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:57:33PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:41 PM, John W. Linville > <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 01:47:02PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > >> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 17:17 -0600, John W. Linville wrote: > >> > Dave, > >> > > >> > One more for 2.6.27 -- a fix for a possible interrupt storm. There is > >> > even a link in the commit log to a youtube video of the storm in > >> > progress. :-) > >> > > >> > Let me know if there are problems! > >> > >> Can you also add this one? It doesn't panic the kernel when a frame from > >> firmware is invalid. > >> > >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122219037706528&w=2 > > > > Is there an open bug report for that anywhere? Is this something > > that real users (no offense to Johannes) are likely to hit? > > I'm just exporting the major bugs from our internal database to > buzilla, 5000 is new so > we are hitting the problems during testing before users report them. > > Now I don't know if it was good idea to push the driver upstream same > time as it hits the market.
You're right -- pushing it sooner rather than sitting on it internally probably would have helped to give it more visibility sooner.
John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@tuxdriver.com of your literate lifestyle.
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