Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:32:37 -0700
To: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
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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From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:03:03PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> 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

	Yes, the fix looked more extensive than I though, and I guess
you also fixed other corner cases in the process. Thanks for your
work, I think you did the right thing...
	Regards,

	Jean