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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:39:16 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: rtl8187 wireless issues
From: "P.G. Richardson" <p.g.richardson@phantomjinx.co.uk>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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> On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:48:55PM +0000, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>
>> About dates in wireless-testing log - I had an impression (I could b=
e
>> wrong) that the dates are sometimes git-format-patch/posting dates a=
nd
>> not dates at which John commits to wireless-testing? (i.e. the dates
>> shown could be a lot earlier than time of commit, or time of commit =
is
>> not shown by the dates associated with a patch - I thought this make=
s
>> sense since the date of a patch should be the first time it appears =
in
>> the "system", not the first time it gets in-coporated in a particula=
r
>> tree, and patches can go between trees and should *not* pick up date
>> change on the way).
>
> Patch dates in 'git log' are based on their reported creation time or
> (for patches not from git) their posting time.  That's just the way
> git works (at least by default).
>
> I generally tag wireless-testing updates on the master branch with
> a date-based tag.  You can see them like this:
>
> 	git fetch --tags # just in case...
> 	git tag | grep master
>
> Hth!

Apologies. there might be some confusion. When I mentioned the date of =
the
30/01/2009, I was referring to the snapshot date of the tarball
downloaded, ie. compat-wireless-$(date -I).tar.bz2.

I haven't used wireless-testing's git repo thus far. If it will help wi=
th
the rate issue I have then will definitely install that version instead=
=2E

Cheers

PGR


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