Return-path: Received: from isilmar.linta.de ([213.133.102.198]:43515 "EHLO linta.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754877AbYJ2Vx2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:53:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:53:25 +0100 From: Dominik Brodowski To: reinette chatre Cc: Johannes Berg , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc regression: Can't stop Rx DMA Message-ID: <20081029215325.GA14849@isilmar.linta.de> (sfid-20081029_225352_754997_B06D63C2) References: <1225145468.1115.139.camel@rc-desk> <20081027230326.GA23250@isilmar.linta.de> <1225154823.1115.149.camel@rc-desk> <20081028194323.GA14303@isilmar.linta.de> <1225225434.1115.217.camel@rc-desk> <1225235731.1369.8.camel@johannes.berg> <1225236760.1115.245.camel@rc-desk> <20081028233841.GA12554@isilmar.linta.de> <20081029002713.GA16554@isilmar.linta.de> <1225300252.1115.266.camel@rc-desk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1225300252.1115.266.camel@rc-desk> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:10:52AM -0700, reinette chatre wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 17:27 -0700, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > > With CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY=y, both the old and the new firmware > > works. Without, only the old firmware works. > > (I assume you mean "only the new firmware works") yes, sorry for the confusion. > > I'd think that at least the error message could be clarified a bit > > (is it really a "Microcode SW error"?)... also, it might be a corner case > > whether the new firmware would better be called -2 because of this > > incompatibility? > > We can do away with the error message with a driver change. This patch > should take care of it: but could we get a more meaningful error message instead? Such as "No regulartory information found -- therefore the microcode fails to cooperate with you! Either use iw available at ... or recompile with CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY set to yes." ? Thanks, Dominik