Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 04:05 -0500, John H. wrote: >> Thanks. >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03201.html > > That's not the one I was thinking of, does it apply? Look for his > combined patches. > >> I am assuming that one is enough for the speed difference? > > Don't really know. > >> Will these >> patches be in next kernel releases? > > Yeah, should already be if you use .21-rc6 or so.
The patch that makes the biggest change in speed is in 2.6.21-rc1 and later. There are additional improvements that won't be in mainline until 2.6.22-rc1. This is a consequence of the development model for Linux. Once a new release is available, there is a period (usually 2 weeks) where any new features and code enhancements are accepted. Once the -rc1 stage is reached, only bug fixes are accepted. Any feature enhancements such as an updating of the specifications are not considered a bug fix unless they fix a kernel crash. As you can imagine, there are usually code improvements that miss the window, thus are waiting to be included in mainline. These are always available at ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches in the form of a patch file named combined_2.6.xx.y.patch. The code base in Linville's wireless-2.6 git tree is usually up to date as well. BTW, my 4311 gets download speeds of up to 1700 Mbs and uploads of 750 Mbs. We still have room for improvement as Windows gets an upload of 1900 Mbs, but at least the 4311 is faster than my broadband line with 7 Mbs down and 0.5 Mbs up. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
