Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:62037 "EHLO mail-fx0-f217.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753853AbZHaS5M (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:57:12 -0400 Received: by fxm17 with SMTP id 17so2965787fxm.37 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:57:13 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <43e72e890908311141k6bcf5edbl6bce2b88670fb5f8@mail.gmail.com> References: <3ace41890908311055s5c49a25fjf69ca48024579d44@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890908311102q2ed9e8b3q8f1f15d45a29b2f1@mail.gmail.com> <3ace41890908311132g16783b68y2d1771ce1d2780d@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890908311141k6bcf5edbl6bce2b88670fb5f8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:57:13 +0100 Message-ID: <3ace41890908311157v4fbc9829j6db9c91ef6fff3c7@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: rtl8187b Problem with tx level From: Hin-Tak Leung To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: Tobias Schlemmer , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >>>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Tobias >>>> Schlemmer wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I have some problem with my rtl8187b device. It is included in my laptop >>>>> running Ubuntu linux 2.6.28. I've tested several compat-wireless releases >>>>> including 2.6.30 and 2.6.31-rc7. >>>> >>>> Hmm, are compat-wireless versioned against kernels? >>> >>> The stable ones are: >>> >>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/ >>> >>> Luis >>> >> >> Thanks - it is new addition to the web-site :-), I see. > > Yup, and when 2.6.32-rc1 is released we'll have another > compat-wireless tarball made from that as well. > >> Anyway, Larry >> and Herton have made more changes/improvements in rtl8187 in >> latest-and-greatest than 2.6.31-rc7... > > Thanks for the heads up, what I recommend is you edit the > wireless.kernel.org wiki page for rtl8187 and put there a section of > 'recommended version' and explain what kernel release you expect to > work the best, and if you do recommend latest and greatest put that on > the wiki. This is what we did for ath9k as ath9k changes kept coming > in for ath9k through kernel releases and distributions were still on > old versions of it. What I hope is eventually users will just know to > check wireless.kernel.org driver page for details for their own > drivers. > > Luis > I just took a look at the history - there aren't obvious bug fixes, a bunch of work queue-related changes from you & Johannes; feature-wise, Larry added LED blinking after 2.6.30, and Herton added rfkill support quite recently after 2.6.31-rc7 . But no, there isn't any change that would affect tx level beyond 2.6.31-rc7, I think.