Re: [PATCH 0/2] iwlwifi fixes for 2.6.34

[reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>]

Hi John,

On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 11:23 -0700, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 02:49:43PM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> > We include two late fixes hoping to make it into 2.6.34.
> > 
> > "iwlwifi: fix internal scan race" fixes a kernel crash caused by
> > accessing a NULL pointer. More can be read in
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15824
> > 
> > "iwlagn: work around rate scaling reset delay" is already in
> > wireless-next-2.6 but has since been shown to be an issue in 2.6.34 also.
> > This fixes spurious firmware restarts that has been documented in
> > http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2173 , but it is the
> > community report tracked in
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15782 that prompted us sending
> > this fix to wireless-2.6 also.
> > 
> > These patches are also available from wireless-2.6 branch on
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6.git
> > 
> > Reinette Chatre (2):
> >   iwlwifi: fix internal scan race
> >   iwlagn: work around rate scaling reset delay
> 
> Since the one of these is already in linux-2.6 now, I'll just apply
> the other one directly rather than pulling.  I hope that isn't too
> inconvenient!

Makes sense to do this. No problem here. I'll work on getting them into
stable.

Thank you for the heads up.

Reinette