Re: frustrating ath9k issues in 2.6.27-rc6-00036-ga551b98 (Linus pristine tree)

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Sep 15 2008 - 00:33:26 EST


On Monday, 15 of September 2008, Steven Noonan wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > On Saturday, 13 of September 2008, Steven Noonan wrote:
> > > I just had another incident where it disassociated and refused to
> > > reassociate. I got about 100 of these in my dmesg (fixed by unloading
> > > and reloading ath9k):
> >
> > Is this a regression from 2.6.26?
> >
>
> ath9k has been recently introduced (i.e. it's new to 2.6.27). So I'm not
> certain how to answer. Correct me if I'm wrong but a regression is a new
> bug for a specific component that did not surface in the previous release,
> correct?

Yes.

> But if the component didn't exist in the previous version, is it still a
> regression?

No, it isn't considered as a regression.

Thanks,
Rafael
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