Return-path: Received: from home.einfach.org ([80.86.92.145]:50197 "EHLO home.einfach.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751312Ab0CIF45 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:56:57 -0500 From: Bruno Randolf To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH v2] ath5k: fix I/Q calibration (for real) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 14:56:37 +0900 Cc: Bob Copeland , ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com References: <20100308025841.7460.69949.stgit@void> <43e72e891003081932h49340b6aia3fb6fd1e60ae8d7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43e72e891003081932h49340b6aia3fb6fd1e60ae8d7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Message-Id: <201003091456.37577.br1@einfach.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tuesday 09 March 2010 12:32:33 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Bob Copeland wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Bruno Randolf wrote: > >>>> > 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?). > > > > Yes, people do use ath5k in production. Some large companies. > > > >>>> 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 > >>> > >>> sure, as i said, i don't mind. :) > >> > >> Alright lets skip stable for this. > > > > Wow this whole line of conversation is confusing :) > > Hehe. sorry well I was talking to Bruno about the "stable" > qualifications of this fix, and it doesn't fix an oops or serious bug, > but it certainly can improve performance but I haven't myself seen > numbers and would hate to justify just about pushing anything > upstream. > > > If this fixes a calibration bug it needs to go to stable. > > Perhaps a little more elaboration on the commit log on the impact and > how this helps and how much would help. ok. to stop the confusion, i'll add cc: stable. bruno