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Re: Re : [Prism54-devel] Question on prism54 driver

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Subject: Re: Re : [Prism54-devel] Question on prism54 driver
From: Rainer Weikusat <rainer.weikusat@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:25:42 +0200
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In-reply-to: <20050415165455.GA8741@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Jean Tourrilhes's message of "Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:54:55 -0700")
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Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Rainer Weikusat wrote :
>> Jean-Baptiste Note <jean-baptiste.note at wanadoo.fr> writes:
>> > Going through the prism54 code for reuse in the softmac driver, i
>> > stumbled accross inconsistencies in the queue management functions for
>> > the mgmt rx queue and the data rx queue that i cannot understand.
>> 
>> <sigh>
>> No, you are just hacking the code without even having tried to
>> understand
>> 
>>      a) what it is doing
>>       b) why it does this
>> [which, "by coincedence", happens to be the reason that this driver is
>>  so thouroughly broken]
>> </sigh>
>> 
>> BTW, I shouldn't be telling you how your code works, don't you think
>> so?
>
>       Ah ! It's so fun to blast an e-mail and flame away.

> Now, I'm sorry to inform you that you got a few important fact
> wrong, and that your critics were totally unjustified.

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