On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 17:27 -0700, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> With CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY=y, both the old and the new firmware
> works. Without, only the old firmware works.
(I assume you mean "only the new firmware works")
>
> I'd think that at least the error message could be clarified a bit
> (is it really a "Microcode SW error"?)... also, it might be a corner case
> whether the new firmware would better be called -2 because of this
> incompatibility?
We can do away with the error message with a driver change. This patch
should take care of it:
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
index 0758f8f..ab7c93d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
@@ -6219,6 +6219,11 @@ static void iwl3945_bg_request_scan(struct work_struct *data)
n_probes,
(void *)&scan->data[le16_to_cpu(scan->tx_cmd.len)]);
+ if (scan->channel_count == 0) {
+ IWL_DEBUG_SCAN("channel count %d\n", scan->channel_count);
+ goto done;
+ }
+
cmd.len += le16_to_cpu(scan->tx_cmd.len) +
scan->channel_count * sizeof(struct iwl3945_scan_channel);
cmd.data = scan;
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