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Whats with "iwl3945: fix scan races"?

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[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/98326/

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Reinette Chatre
<reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We include two late fixes hoping to make it into 2.6.34.
>
> "iwlwifi: fix internal scan race" fixes a kernel crash caused by
> accessing a NULL pointer. More can be read in
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15824
>
> "iwlagn: work around rate scaling reset delay" is already in
> wireless-next-2.6 but has since been shown to be an issue in 2.6.34 also.
> This fixes spurious firmware restarts that has been documented in
> http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2173 , but it is the
> community report tracked in
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15782 that prompted us sending
> this fix to wireless-2.6 also.
>
> These patches are also available from wireless-2.6 branch on
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6.git
>
> Reinette Chatre (2):
>  iwlwifi: fix internal scan race
>  iwlagn: work around rate scaling reset delay
>
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c |   21 +++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-sta.c  |   37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
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