RE: [PATCH 0/1] ath6kl: add ath6kl driver for AR6003 chip

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Timo,
   Has this issue been already addressed with the version of the driver on which it was found? If yes, then we should try to get the fix(es) incorporated in ath6kl after a review so that we do not have the same problem with AR6003.

Regards,
Vipin 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timo Juhani Lindfors [mailto:timo.lindfors@xxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 3:39 AM
> To: Michael Trimarchi
> Cc: Peter Korsgaard; Vipin Mehta; 
> linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Luis Rodriguez; 
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] ath6kl: add ath6kl driver for AR6003 chip
> 
> Michael Trimarchi <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Looking at the code I think that is basically the same.
> 
> Does it then also suffer from the bug where a non-root user 
> can sabotage your network connectivity by periodically 
> disabling power_mode MAX_PERF_POWER? I'm not a kernel hacker 
> but I could not see anything checking for root or 
> CAP_NET_ADMIN in the proposed driver.
> 
> The bug report for the git.openmoko.org branch is at
> http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2321
> 
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