Re: [3.2.y] staging: r8712u: Fix regression caused by commit 8c213fa

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On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 21:04 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 05/07/2012 08:18 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Larry Finger wrote:
> >
> >> I missed a Cc for stable in this patch:
> >>
> >> ================================================
> >> commit 2080913e017ab9f88379d93fd09546ad95faf87b
> >> Author: Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date:   Sat Feb 25 18:10:21 2012 -0600
> >>
> >>      staging: r8712u: Fix regression caused by commit 8c213fa
> >>
> >>      In commit 8c213fa "staging: r8712u: Use asynchronous firmware loading",
> >>      the command to release the firmware was placed in the wrong routine.
> >>
> >>      In combination with the bug introduced in commit a5ee652 "staging: r8712u:
> >>      Interface-state not fully tracked", the driver attempts to upload firmware
> >>      that had already been released. This bug is the source of one of the
> >>      problems in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/27996#comment89833.
> >>
> >>      Tested-by: Alberto Lago Ballesteros<saniukeokusainaya@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>      Tested-by: Adrian<agib@xxxxxx>
> >>      Signed-off-by: Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>      Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Accordingly, the fix described above was included in 3.3.4.
> >
> > a5ee652 was merged during the 3.2 merge window and 8c213fa was
> > backported as part of 3.2.6, so I imagine the 3.2-stable tree needs
> > this fix, too.  (Luckily neither patch is in 3.0.y.)
> 
> Yes, that is correct.

I've queued this for 3.2.y, thanks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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