From: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH v2] ath5k: fix I/Q calibration (for real)
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:50:21 +0900
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On Tuesday 09 March 2010 09:47:09 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 March 2010 01:24:48 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> >> Thanks Bruno, are these stable fixes?
> >> > 
> >> > hi luis!
> >> > 
> >> > i think so. the behaviour before was completely broken, now it's
> >> > better.
> >> > 
> >> > but i'm not sure about that whole Cc: stable@kernel.org thing...
> >> > (sorry i've been away for a while)... i read
> >> > Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt but still not sure if that
> >> > applies for this patch.
> >> 
> >> Just add:
> >> 
> >> Cc: stable@kernel.org
> >> 
> >> below your Singed-off-by on the commit log entry. That list will get
> >> spammed once the patch is merged on Linus' tree.
> > 
> > i understand that.
> > 
> > the question is more if my patch justifies bothering 'stable' or not.
> > 
> > as i said, in my point of view ath5k has several problems right now
> > (performace and stability), and i guess nobody will be using it seriously
> > in actual production use (does anyone?). so i think it does not really
> > matter if this or any of my other patches go into stable sooner or
> > later. does it?
> 
> 2.6.32 will be used by a lot of "enterprise" releases, I'd prefer
> connection stability fixes do indeed go in for 2.6.32 for ath5k, this
> seems like one. I'll let John be the judge.

sure, as i said, i don't mind. :)

bruno