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From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:16:20 -0800
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Subject: Re: Reverting 5d423 fixes loading of ath9k on Acer Extensa 7630EZ
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>> Can you please consider reviewing this issue and help determine if
>> this indeed needs to be reverted for 2.6.32 and the next 2.6.31.y.
>>
>> I am curious if other devices would work by reverting this as well.
>> [ ... ] For details please feel free to check:
>>
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14402
>
> That same commit was the cause for
>
>        http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13940
>
> and we just increased the rounding to make it go away (see commit
> 15b812f1). But that was a hack.
>
> And if that didn't help the ath9k case, then we should just revert
> entirely.

Alright, will see if Bernhard is up for testing the 15b812f1 hack and
report back.

  Luis