Return-path: Received: from purkki.adurom.net ([80.68.90.206]:45656 "EHLO purkki.adurom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753035Ab3FEIoJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2013 04:44:09 -0400 From: Kalle Valo To: "Arend van Spriel" Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "David Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmsmac: disable power-save related functions References: <1370419185-3977-1-git-send-email-arend@broadcom.com> <878v2p3qst.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:44:07 +0300 In-Reply-To: <878v2p3qst.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (Kalle Valo's message of "Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:28:02 +0300") Message-ID: <874ndd3q20.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (sfid-20130605_104424_215873_6D3B127B) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Kalle Valo writes: > "Arend van Spriel" writes: > >> This patch fixes a regression introduced by: >> >> commit 6da3b6c48d79da96a36c2632053cf4f53bf48fb2 >> Author: Hauke Mehrtens >> Date: Sun Mar 24 01:45:52 2013 +0100 >> >> brcmsmac: remove brcms_bss_cfg->associated >> >> The regression behaviour is described in: >> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg107474.html > > The link is not a very reliable reference, it can die anytime and > there's no way to know what message it refers to. Stating the message id > would better. And the best would be to copy the full text to the commit > log, it's only few lines anyway. Johannes gave a handy tip. Gmane has a service which uses message ids: http://mid.gmane.org/5197DC4F.7030503@broadcom.com If the link or service dies, one can find the email with the message id visible from the link. -- Kalle Valo