From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:39886 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758213Ab0EUTQs (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 May 2010 15:16:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] iwlwifi fixes for 2.6.34 From: reinette chatre To: "John W. Linville" Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" In-Reply-To: <20100521182325.GA2495@tuxdriver.com> References: <1273787385-9248-1-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com> <20100521182325.GA2495@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 12:16:47 -0700 Message-ID: <1274469407.2091.10774.camel@rchatre-DESK> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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