On Thursday 24 January 2008 21:27:03 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Michael Buesch wrote: > > > > > > > > Can you check if that is the > > > > WARN_ON_ONCE(((unsigned long)(skb->data + hdrlen)) & 3); > > > > in rx.c line 1486? > > > > Yes fine. > > Patches are on their way. Ignore the warning for now. It is harmless. > > I don't think this ever got fixed. This was fixed in the drivers. A fix for zd1211rw got in and for the RTL wireless drivers. Did any other driver trigger this warning? > I don't see any alternative but just uncomment that bogus warning, because > it's otherwise going to just cause way more noise than it's worth. It's > apparently known to developers, and as such it's worthless in the source > code except as a way to make poor users worry. > > It's been in the top oops/warnings report for the last three weeks, and I > haven't gotten any patches for it, so I'm a bit grumpy. What's the point > of having a WARN_ON() if nobody involved *does* anything about it? It was already fixed before this bugreport, in this mail thread you are replying to, was sent. We do have a long maintainers chain for wireless driver developers -> john linville -> netdev -> you So it can cause some delay sometimes, but I'm pretty sure the fixes should have hit mainline by now. I can recheck that if you desire. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
