On Friday 02 January 2009, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Am Freitag, 2. Januar 2009 schrieb Ivo van Doorn: > > On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > Ivo, > > > > > > I am testing an > > > > > > blackbox:~# lsusb |grep Link > > > Bus 008 Device 002: ID 2001:3c00 D-Link Corp. [hex] DWL-G122 802.11g rev. > > > B1 [ralink] > > > blackbox:~# > > > > > > on a Debian Lenny system (to be released as Debian 5.0 very soon). > > > > > > Lenny comes with an 2.6.26.8 kernel. > > > > > > I get lots of timeouts in when I try to connect to the AP. I found your > > > commit > > > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit > > >;h=d06193f311102b2c990ec5f66b470ea49ecc73a4 > > > > > > though I can not (I have not yet enough git expertise) tell, if that > > > commit went into 2.6.26.8. If not that would probably explain the problem > > > I see. > > > > According tohttp://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27 the > > patch went into 2.6.27 so that means it probably won't be present in the > > 2.6.26 kernel series. > > > > Many thanks for the quick reply. With a 2.6.27 kernel (which is unfortunately > not in the upcoming Debian lenny release) the timeouts went away and the > stick worked flawless. > > From you commit comments, I get the impression that applying the patch to a > 2.6.26 kernel should be pretty save. Do you think the patch can break > anything when applied to a 2.6.26 kernel, is the risk of unexpected side > effects very low?
No, the patch shoul be very save to be applied to 2.6.26. Ivo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
