Linus Torvalds wrote:

Last time I had connection issues with this laptop, nothing ended up
happening in the end, and I had people pipe up saying they had had
similar problems. I'd hate for the same "nothing" to happen this time
just because people aren't 100% sure what the final right thing is to
do. So I'd really like people to apply the simple workarounds for now
because clearly something is badly wrong, and *if* there is some
better resolution later, that's fine.

..

So I'm sure I can improve reception of my laptop, but that's not the
point. The point is that bad wireless networks aren't so unusual, and
right now things clearly don't work as well as they could.

Those two patches (the one-liner in particular) should have gone
in already 5-10 years ago. This has been an embarrassing problem
for many years.

I'm glad that people jumped this time around.


//Peter