Return-path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:49313 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758335Ab2EIRlL (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2012 13:41:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 10:41:06 -0700 From: Seth Forshee To: Arend van Spriel Cc: Jonathan Nieder , =?utf-8?B?Q2FtYWxlw7Nu?= , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "sgruszka@redhat.com" Subject: Re: brcmsmac still woes, possible regression? Message-ID: <20120509174106.GA7189@ubuntu-mba> (sfid-20120509_194126_669079_ADFCCCC9) References: <20120328112657.GA6114@stt008.linux.site> <4F7302D9.8070009@broadcom.com> <4F744DD8.8010004@broadcom.com> <20120329133835.GA5196@stt008.linux.site> <20120402215005.GA13969@burratino> <4F7B179F.7070502@broadcom.com> <20120509094111.GA2333@burratino> <4FAA45AF.8050201@broadcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <4FAA45AF.8050201@broadcom.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:23:43PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 05/09/2012 11:41 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Hi Arend, > > > > Arend van Spriel wrote, about a month ago[1]: > > > >> I sent the patch to Camaleón to test it before sending out the > >> patch. So the answer it definitely no. I wanted to get it into rc1, > >> but we missed that. > > > > Any news? If there's a patch that goes in the right direction with > > known problems I'd still be interested in it, among other reasons > > because it would make the bug more concrete and make it easier to > > think about possible fixes. > > Well, there is the short term fix, which is already upstream and moved > to stable. The long term fix for which Seth Forshee (Canonical) did a > great job is reviewed over here, but it involves regulatory related code > so it needs discussions with our compliance team and supervisor. So that > causes some lag time. The patches I sent still relies on the transmit-after-beacon fix, as I preserved the behavior of muting tx if the channel is passive scan. I *think* this isn't actually necessary, but I'd have to investigate a little further to be certain. Seth