Re: 2.6.24.3-50, b43: accidental patch ??

[sean darcy <seandarcy2 gmail com>]

John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:02:10AM -0400, sean darcy wrote:
> > From the b43 mailing list. This doesn't sound right to me but.........
>
> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Stefanik Gábor 
> > <netrolller 3d gmail com> wrote:
> > > Most likely a patch targeted at 2.6.25 or 2.6.26 accidentally slipped 
> > into
> > > Fedora's 2.6.24.3 kernel.
>
> No accident -- the wireless bits in Fedora kernels are quite a bit
> ahead of their nominal base version.  Generally, they are synced with
> the upstream wireless trees.
>
> John

OK. But then I'm back to my original question: why all those

Apr  1 11:03:56 notebook kernel: b43-phy0 ERROR: PHY transmission error
Apr  1 11:04:03 notebook kernel: printk: 26 messages suppressed.

in /var/log/messages?

Or if we're supposed to use the old 4.80.53 firmware, why the deprecated 
message?

The upstream list probably won't respond: they obviously think only a 
portion of the new driver was included - not the whole thing.

sean