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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:03:03 -0500
From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
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CC: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc regression: bcm43xx does not work after commit 4cf92a3c
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Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> 
> 	Could you be more explicit ? Reverting the patch will just
> bring back the old bug, and the old code was obviously wrong. I don't
> like the idea of trading one bug for another bug. It looks to me like
> nobody knows what's exactly happening in the driver and we are just
> trying random fixes and see what breaks.
> 	Could you figure out what's exactly happening and make a
> proper fix ?
> 	Regards,

It took me nearly two days, but I finally found the correct fix for the bug that made it impossible
to set the essid. The resulting patch has been sent to John.

Larry