On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:30:32PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 09:01 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:52:49PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > This fixes RHBZ 466264, whenever the master interface is > > > renamed this code would BUG_ON. Also fixes a separately > > > reported bug with the debugfs dir being NULL. > > > > > > This patch is not applicable to the next kernel version > > > because both these issues have been fixed, the first one > > > by not having the master interface have a ieee80211_ptr > > > at all, and the second one by also leaving the function > > > early. > > > > So this will not be going into .28, right? > > No, it won't, the code has changed in ways that won't make this happen > any more. The fix with the (!dir) part is on it's way, I could split > that out separately if you'd like, but then we'd have to fix up the > rejects because that patch looks different too even though the result > will be very similar. That's ok, just want to have things clear if people are looking and notice it's not in Linus's tree when it goes into -stable. > > What -stable trees should it > > go to, .27? .26? .25? > > Good question. The latter fix with (!dir) applies to .26 as well, but > the issue is hit so infrequently (only when adding the debugfs dir has > failed before) that I'm not sure it's worth it. And the master interface > issue isn't present before .27. Ok, so only for .27 is fine with me, I'll queue it up. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
