On Monday 27 November 2006 21:37, Larry Finger wrote: > From: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In the scan section of ieee80211softmac, network transmits are disabled. > When SoftMAC re-enables transmits, it may override the wishes of a driver > that may have very good reasons for disabling transmits. At least one failure > in bcm43xx can be traced to this problem. In addition, several unexplained > problems may arise from the unexpected enabling of transmits.
> Note that > making this change introduces a new bug that would allow transmits for the > current session to be transmitted on the wrong channel; Nono, please don't confuse that. It does not _indruduce_ a new bug. The bug is already there. It's only less likely to trigger without this bugfix patch. > however, the new bug > is much less severe than the one being fixed, as the new one only leads to > a few retransmits, whereas the old one can bring the interface down. Yeah, that too. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
