Given 3.7 has shipped, should I rebase on release and put a new RFC post up, rebase on linux-next, wait for a 3.8-rc or just post it up as v2 for submission this time as is? Josh C On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Josh Coombs <josh.coombs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've been banging on my test setup for the past week. I haven't > tracked down the cause yet, but something in my prior build system > results in this problem being masked with some builds. Doing pure > vanilla builds from git I'm able to reproduce with 3.6 and the 3.7-rc > series reliably. Support for my GFN doesn't exist officially prior to > 3.6 and I didn't want to introduce new variables by back porting > support and trying to test with that patch set so I was unable to > isolate a start point for the failure I found. I can reproduce the > failure with 3.7-rc6 currently. > > Currently I'm running stable on 3.7-rc6 with the below patch and my > RealTek 8712 USB NIC. > > I'm open to any and all suggestions on how to test further. > > Signed-off-by: Joshua Coombs <josh.coombs@xxxxxxxxx> > -- > diff -ruN a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_sta_mgt.c > b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_sta_mgt.c > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_sta_mgt.c 2012-11-17 > 16:21:23.000000000 -0500 > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_sta_mgt.c 2012-11-18 > 14:58:27.000000000 -0500 > @@ -52,11 +52,11 @@ > s32 i; > > pstapriv->pallocated_stainfo_buf = _malloc(sizeof(struct sta_info) * > - NUM_STA + 4); > + NUM_STA + 8); > if (pstapriv->pallocated_stainfo_buf == NULL) > return _FAIL; > - pstapriv->pstainfo_buf = pstapriv->pallocated_stainfo_buf + 4 - > - ((addr_t)(pstapriv->pallocated_stainfo_buf) & 3); > + pstapriv->pstainfo_buf = pstapriv->pallocated_stainfo_buf + 8 - > + ((addr_t)(pstapriv->pallocated_stainfo_buf) & 7); > _init_queue(&pstapriv->free_sta_queue); > spin_lock_init(&pstapriv->sta_hash_lock); > pstapriv->asoc_sta_count = 0; _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
