Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.217.213]:57017 "EHLO mail-gx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750711AbZHBJKI (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Aug 2009 05:10:08 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1248945770.7910.24.camel@marge.simson.net> <1248946195.8925.9.camel@johannes.local> <1248947099.8396.6.camel@marge.simson.net> <1248947740.8925.12.camel@johannes.local> Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:10:07 +0800 Message-ID: <804dabb00908020210r72a9a9c3p5c6d906a7f6b53db@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [wireless] rt2870sta BUGs on shutdown, 2.6.30.2->git.today+git.wireless.today From: Peter Teoh To: Luis Correia Cc: Mike Galbraith , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, LKML , "John W. Linville" , Johannes Berg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 7/30/09, Luis Correia wrote: > Hi Mike, > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:55, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:44 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > >> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:29 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > >> > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:22 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > >> > > >> > > drivers/staging/rt2870/../rt2860/sta_ioctl.c > >> > > >> > Sorry, but that '/staging/' thing in there means we cannot support this. > >> > If you must, take your query to the staging list, > >> > devel@driverdev.osuosl.org (according to MAINTAINERS). > >> > >> Forwarded, thanks. > >> > >> ....hm. Does "If you must" mean reports aren't welcome? > > > > To be honest, I don't know. I'd rather see people use the rt2x00 code > > instead of spending time cleaning up that mess (the code you've pasted > > was pretty bad!). But you may or may not find somebody who cares about > > that, just rather unlikely on this list. > > What is appreciated is people with time to compare both code paths, > and report some inconsistancies, specially about card initialization > and general handling. > > To be hones, we, the rt2x00 team, find Ralink's code to be very > difficult to follow, and combersome most of the times. > This is very true, I had too many questions about the different symbols, and task vs pid variations etc etc....and so many macro usage :-).... But thank you for all the efforts of debugging!!!! -- Regards, Peter Teoh