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Re: [stable] [PATCH] atheros: fix propagation of bad EEPROM on regulatory init

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* Luis R. Rodriguez (lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> When the EEPROM is not in good condition we cannot continue so
> we currently bail out but only ath5k is bailing out properly.
> Both ath9k and ar9170 were proceeding and if a user were to run
> into this they'd see an obscure panic. Lets propagate the error
> as intended and make sure we inform the user by lifting the
> error message from debug to a kernel error.

Looks like this still isn't upstream.

> Stable note: You can find a port of this page here:
> 
> http://bombadil.infradead.org/~mcgrof/patches/ath9k/ath9k-fix-eeprom.patch.txt

(Thanks for the backport ;-)
-chris
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