From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.tpi.com ([70.99.223.143]:2441 "EHLO mail.tpi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751259Ab0F1SWY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:22:24 -0400 Message-ID: <4C28E858.5030700@canonical.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:22:16 -0600 From: Tim Gardner Reply-To: tim.gardner@canonical.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: Pavel Roskin , linux-wireless , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , j@w1.fi Subject: Re: 2.6.35-rc3: Reported regressions 2.6.33 -> 2.6.34 References: <1277157673.24550.5.camel@mj> <4C200059.1090100@canonical.com> <4C2110BA.3020801@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <4C2110BA.3020801@canonical.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/22/2010 01:36 PM, Tim Gardner wrote: > On 06/21/2010 06:26 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Tim >> Gardner wrote: >>> On 06/21/2010 04:18 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Pavel Roskin >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 11:32 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> Bug-Entry : >>>>>>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16111 Subject >>>>>>> : hostap_pci: infinite registered netdevice wifi0 >>>>>>> Submitter : Petr Pisar Date : >>>>>>> 2010-06-02 20:55 (19 days old) >>>>>> >>>>>> The last entry on this one says we are not sure how to fix >>>>>> this... >>>>> >>>>> That was a patch posted for that by Tim Gardner: >>>>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/105008/ >>>>> >>>>> The patch is applied to wireless-testing >>>>> (d6a574ff6bfb842bdb98065da053881ff527be46) >>>>> >>>>> $ git describe d6a574ff6bfb842bdb98065da053881ff527be46 >>>>> v2.6.34-4694-gd6a574f >>>>> >>>>> I understand it was applied after 2.6.34, so it should be >>>>> backported to 2.6.34 and whatever older kernels are >>>>> affected. >>>> >>>> Tim can this be sent for stable? >>>> >>>> Luis, a stable whore >>>> >>> >>> Luis, >>> >>> The patch that I sent John is already Cc stable@kernel.org, >>> though it may not now apply after >>> 56bf882230d2266a2e07b7f404dc96d157a65daa 'Revert "wireless: >>> hostap, fix oops due to early probing interrupt"'. I'll check in >>> the morning and craft a backported patch if necessary. >> >> Sweet thanks for the heads up! >> >> Luis >> > > Hmm, looks like I'm gonna have to write some backport patches. I'll > wait until this appears in Linus' tree so I can feed stable the right > SHA1 info. > > rtg I sent 4 backport patches (from commit d6a574ff6bfb842bdb98065da053881ff527be46) to stable@kernel.org; 2.6.27.y, 2.6.32.y, 2.6.33.y, and 2.6.34.y. Unfortunately they all required unique patches in order to cleanly apply since there seemed to be some fiddling around with driver specific card services macros from version to version. rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com