Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:26:01 -0400
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
	Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-mac80211: Fix specs typo for baseband attenuation
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 01:49:58PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
> >
> >Hmmm...well, if you asked to revert it on bcm43xx, why is it appropriate 
> >here?
> 
> AFAIK, the V4 specs have always had the typo, thus there was no patch 
> introducing this error - it is original. On the other hand, the V3 specs 
> were modified fairly late in the process, which led to the bcm43xx patch 
> that needed to be reverted. I suspect that the V3 changes may have been the 
> result of making them match the V4 specs. If that is the case, it made both 
> of them wrong.
> 
> No matter, the change is needed to make some older cards work. Now I know 
> why bcm43xx-mac80211 never worked on my BCM4306 until today.

OK, I get it...I was looking at the patch dwmw2 slipped into F-7 and
then in my head reverting that (i.e. reversing the reverse patch) --
my bad!

Michael, unless you plan to push soon I'll just apply the new patch
to wireless-dev more-or-less immediately?

John
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John W. Linville
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