On Saturday 23 February 2008 22:32:46 Alexey Zaytsev wrote: > > The insults being? A few quotes, please. > If you really want to know, the > "Because the new driver works, if you just set it up right." > for me was clearly a hint that I'm just an other imcompetent > user, who can't even follow the instructions from linuxwireless.org.
Well. That's 99% of all bugreports I receive. You will understand that I won't explain the same crap that's written on linuxwireless.org over and over 20 times each day to random people. And yes, you belong to the group of my "random people", as I don't remember your name from the top of my head. So in 99% of the cases the user did something wrong. But I still don't see the insult. > And you knew that the new driver did no work with the bcm4311 > chips, which is the sad thing. That is not true. It doesn't work with exactly _one_ revision of the bcm4311 card. And that is already fixed in 2.6.25. I'd like to have that in .24-stable, too, but I guess it's too big. It changes some parts of the DMA engine code. > Not true at all. I my first and second emails, there was not a single word > about who broke the driver. There were only the fix, and the explanation, > why the fix is needed. I really appreciate the work done on the b43 driver, > and I'd emmediately switch to it, if only it worked for me*. Yeah. But I don't like that patch. Then people came and said stuff like I _have_ to accept it because it fixes stuff I broke. Excuse me, but nobody can force me to sign off a patch that I am not completely convinced of. _Even_ if it turns out that a commit made by me broke something. Especially, if there's already another fix for the situation queued up in the development kernel. > I'm the one person who investigated the problem, wrote a > patch and sent it to the lkml. After lurking in #bcm-users > for a day, I saw quite a few users asking why the b43 driver > did not work for them, and the best answer they got, was > got read the linuxwireless.org. Are you sure they all were > just unable to upgrade the firmware? Yeah. Experience shows that. Read the archives. > And by the way, the bcm4311 and b44 combination is not > something I assembled just to piss you off. It's what HP puts > in their HP Compaq nx7300 laptops. They were like the > cheapest Core Duo laptops a year ago, and I'm sure they were > not exclusively made. So be it. And you guess what? We already sent a fix for those people upstream a long time ago. It is in 2.6.25. > > So let's > > apply a questionable fix for it that we don't understand. Hopefully > > that fixes it and doesn't break it again for somebody else... . > > > > I provided an alternative fix. In my very first email. > > Sorry, your fix does not work for my hardware. And you know it. Did you _ever_ even try it? http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download -- Greetings Michael. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
