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Re: [PATCH v1.2] Revert "iwlwifi: assign directly to iwl_trans->cfg in QuZ detection"

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Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, 2019-12-03 at 07:39 +0000, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> Anders Kaseorg <andersk@xxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > This reverts commit 968dcfb4905245dc64d65312c0d17692fa087b99.
>> > 
>> > Both that commit and commit 809805a820c6445f7a701ded24fdc6bbc841d1e4
>> > attempted to fix the same bug (dead assignments to the local variable
>> > cfg), but they did so in incompatible ways. When they were both merged,
>> > independently of each other, the combination actually caused the bug to
>> > reappear, leading to a firmware crash on boot for some cards.
>> > 
>> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205719
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@xxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> > [Nope it was more than just format=flowed damage. This one should be
>> > better for real.]
>> 
>> This is nitpicking but as a general comment I would prefer to use simple
>> version numbering v2, v3 and so on. Trying to sort v1.2 in a script is
>> awful. So calling this version v3 is very much preferred, it's not like
>> we are running out of numbers :)
>
> Kalle, this patch makes sense.  There was some merge damage because the
> functions were moved around and the local variables' names have
> changed, causing this mess.
>
> Can you please take this patch to v5.4 fixes when you're satisfied?

Ok, I assigned this to myself and queue for v5.5.

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