Return-path: Received: from web23106.mail.ird.yahoo.com ([217.146.189.46]:28405 "HELO web23106.mail.ird.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756584AbZA0TOU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:14:20 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:14:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Hin-Tak Leung Reply-To: htl10@users.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] rtl8187: Fix error in setting OFDM power settings for RTL8187L To: John W Linville , Larry Finger Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski , barreyromartin@gmail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <497f52fb.ABh5zgEKaz63Z7Lu%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <611949.95393.qm@web23106.mail.ird.yahoo.com> (sfid-20090127_201425_356575_24C1F103) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --- On Tue, 27/1/09, Larry Finger wrote: > After reports of poor performance, a review of the latest > vendor driver > (rtl8187_linux_26.1025.0328.2007) for RTL8187L devices was > undertaken. >=20 > A difference was found in the code used to index the OFDM > power tables. When > the Linux driver was changed, my unit works at a much > greater range than > before. I think this fixes Bugzilla #12380 and has been > tested by at least > two other users. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger > > Tested-by: Mart=EDn Ernesto Barreyro > > Cc: Stable Acked-by; Hin-Tak Leung I think what this patch does is to bias the odfm power most of the time= to the higher end of the acceptable range. (It is clipped to no bigger= than the same old max at both places of modification). Hin-Tak =20 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html