From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: bcm43xx regression in 2.6.24 (with patch)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:19:03 +0100
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On Monday 25 February 2008 13:11:04 Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
> >  > Isn't the resolution Michael is suggesting is, "use the different driver"?
> >
> >  I have two resolutions. One being:
> >  rmmod b44
> >  rmmod ssb
> >  modprobe bcm43xx
> >  modprobe b44
> >
> >  The other being: Wait for 2.6.25 and use the maintained b43 driver.
> 
> Neither of which seem like acceptable solutions for a 2.6.23 -> 2.6.24
> _regression_. Or maybe I am just too naive to believe Linus' statement
> on not letting the kernel regress...

So, please sign-off the patch that we have, if you think it's right
and doesn't cause more regressions.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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