Re: rt2500usb
On Friday 02 January 2009, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> Am Freitag, 2. Januar 2009 schrieb Ivo van Doorn:
> > On Wednesday 31 December 2008, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > > Ivo,
> > >
> > > I am testing an
> > >
> > > blackbox:~# lsusb |grep Link
> > > Bus 008 Device 002: ID 2001:3c00 D-Link Corp. [hex] DWL-G122 802.11g rev.
> > > B1 [ralink]
> > > blackbox:~#
> > >
> > > on a Debian Lenny system (to be released as Debian 5.0 very soon).
> > >
> > > Lenny comes with an 2.6.26.8 kernel.
> > >
> > > I get lots of timeouts in when I try to connect to the AP. I found your
> > > commit
> > >
> > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit
> > >;h=d06193f311102b2c990ec5f66b470ea49ecc73a4
> > >
> > > though I can not (I have not yet enough git expertise) tell, if that
> > > commit went into 2.6.26.8. If not that would probably explain the problem
> > > I see.
> >
> > According tohttp://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27 the
> > patch went into 2.6.27 so that means it probably won't be present in the
> > 2.6.26 kernel series.
> >
>
> Many thanks for the quick reply. With a 2.6.27 kernel (which is unfortunately
> not in the upcoming Debian lenny release) the timeouts went away and the
> stick worked flawless.
>
> From you commit comments, I get the impression that applying the patch to a
> 2.6.26 kernel should be pretty save. Do you think the patch can break
> anything when applied to a 2.6.26 kernel, is the risk of unexpected side
> effects very low?
No, the patch shoul be very save to be applied to 2.6.26.
Ivo
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