From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] iwlwifi fixes for 2.6.34
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 14:23:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100521182325.GA2495@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273787385-9248-1-git-send-email-reinette.chatre@intel.com>
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!
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-21 18:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-13 21:49 [PATCH 0/2] iwlwifi fixes for 2.6.34 Reinette Chatre
2010-05-13 21:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] iwlwifi: fix internal scan race Reinette Chatre
2010-05-13 21:49 ` [PATCH 2/2] iwlagn: work around rate scaling reset delay Reinette Chatre
2010-05-13 21:54 ` [PATCH 0/2] iwlwifi fixes for 2.6.34 Sedat Dilek
2010-05-13 22:15 ` reinette chatre
2010-05-13 22:58 ` Sedat Dilek
2010-05-13 23:16 ` reinette chatre
2010-05-21 18:23 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-05-21 19:16 ` reinette chatre
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2010-04-16 21:50 Reinette Chatre
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