From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.36.123.2]:51382 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751245Ab0HBUwK (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Aug 2010 16:52:10 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.105]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:52:10 -0700 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 13:52:05 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Jan Friedrich CC: Luis Rodriguez , "linville@tuxdriver.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Patch] ath9k: fix erased ieee80211_rx_status.mactime Message-ID: <20100802205205.GG8920@tux> References: <4C57278E.1030601@dev2day.de> <20100802202137.GC8920@tux> <4C572C18.6070003@dev2day.de> <20100802203843.GD8920@tux> <4C572F31.3050809@dev2day.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <4C572F31.3050809@dev2day.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:48:49PM -0700, Jan Friedrich wrote: > > Think? Does the patch actually fix something or do you think it fixes > > something? Next time please include all these details on your patch > > commit log mesage so its easy to understand the reasoning behind > > the patch. > > It fixes the problem I described. Now the mactime is set correctly and > the IBSS merge is done only once and by the correct station. I noticed > no negative side effect and tested it with 10+ stations in IBSS mode. > > Sorry for the inconvenience. Next time I will provide more information. no problem, can you resubmit but add all these details to the commit log? ALso, is this a stable kernel fix, that is, does this fix need to be propagated to the stable kernels, 2.6.35, 2.6.34, 2.6.33, 2.6.32? Luis