Return-path: Received: from foo.stuge.se ([212.116.89.98]:45191 "EHLO foo.stuge.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751866AbbBYSc0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:32:26 -0500 Message-ID: <20150225182543.20582.qmail@stuge.se> (sfid-20150225_193229_831369_6608C151) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:25:43 +0100 From: Peter Stuge To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jouni Malinen , Andrew McGregor , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless , "ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" , Thomas =?utf-8?B?SMO8aG4=?= , Kalle Valo Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] AR9462 problems connecting again.. References: <20150223224305.GA30228@w1.fi> <21739.50662.902775.901924@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <20150224102611.GA30806@w1.fi> <80AA1103-EBCD-4C18-A950-B03FF516E5AC@net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de> <20150224181454.GA30859@w1.fi> <54ED56D8.9030806@openwrt.org> <20150225144723.GA6903@w1.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Linus Torvalds wrote: > Last time I had connection issues with this laptop, nothing ended up > happening in the end, and I had people pipe up saying they had had > similar problems. I'd hate for the same "nothing" to happen this time > just because people aren't 100% sure what the final right thing is to > do. So I'd really like people to apply the simple workarounds for now > because clearly something is badly wrong, and *if* there is some > better resolution later, that's fine. .. > So I'm sure I can improve reception of my laptop, but that's not the > point. The point is that bad wireless networks aren't so unusual, and > right now things clearly don't work as well as they could. Those two patches (the one-liner in particular) should have gone in already 5-10 years ago. This has been an embarrassing problem for many years. I'm glad that people jumped this time around. //Peter