2.6.24.3-50, b43: accidental patch ??

[sean darcy]

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 at 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