Re: [wireless] rt2870sta BUGs on shutdown, 2.6.30.2->git.today+git.wireless.today

[Peter Teoh]

On 7/30/09, Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:55, Johannes Berg<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:44 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:29 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:22 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > drivers/staging/rt2870/../rt2860/sta_ioctl.c
> >> >
> >> > Sorry, but that '/staging/' thing in there means we cannot support this.
> >> > If you must, take your query to the staging list,
> >> > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (according to MAINTAINERS).
> >>
> >> Forwarded, thanks.
> >>
> >> ....hm.  Does "If you must" mean reports aren't welcome?
> >
> > To be honest, I don't know. I'd rather see people use the rt2x00 code
> > instead of spending time cleaning up that mess (the code you've pasted
> > was pretty bad!). But you may or may not find somebody who cares about
> > that, just rather unlikely on this list.
>
> What is appreciated is people with time to compare both code paths,
> and report some inconsistancies, specially about card initialization
> and general handling.
>
> To be hones, we, the rt2x00 team, find Ralink's code to be very
> difficult to follow, and combersome most of the times.
>

This is very true, I had too many questions about the different
symbols, and task vs pid variations  etc etc....and so many macro
usage :-)....
But thank you for all the efforts of debugging!!!!





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Regards,
Peter Teoh
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