Re: 8.2.1 Thoughts

2009-02-06 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:03:08PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: The first useful test is does the 767 version of the wireless driver work with WPA with the new firmware, since that'll suggest to us whether we have a bad driver or bad firmware. I've taken a unit with staging-26 and another with

8.2.1 Thoughts

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Stone
Hey folks, Here are some more unofficial thoughts on how 8.2.1 is progressing: 1) Daniel Drake discovered some annoying wifi regressions (#9235). We need to find root cause here, e.g. by bisecting the kernel patches added since 8.2.0 and testing each resulting kernel with both the

Re: 8.2.1 Thoughts

2009-02-05 Thread quozl
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 06:53:44PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: 1) Daniel Drake discovered some annoying wifi regressions (#9235). We need to find root cause here, e.g. by bisecting the kernel patches added since 8.2.0 and testing each resulting kernel with both the new and the

Re: 8.2.1 Thoughts

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Ball
Hi James, Briefly, how is this done? Where can I get the current kernel source as a bisectable repository http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=olpc-2.6;a=shortlog;h=testing (git clone git://dev.laptop.org/olpc-2.6 cd olpc-2.6 git checkout -b testing origin/testing) and is it as simple

Re: 8.2.1 Thoughts

2009-02-05 Thread david
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Chris Ball wrote: Hi James, Briefly, how is this done? Where can I get the current kernel source as a bisectable repository http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=olpc-2.6;a=shortlog;h=testing (git clone git://dev.laptop.org/olpc-2.6 cd olpc-2.6 git checkout -b

Re: 8.2.1 Thoughts

2009-02-05 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: This commit¹ is known to break WPA until this fix², so I'd recommend testing either neither or both of these commits. I don't know how far they are from eachother. You can tell git bisect to avoid them... but they may mask the