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Re: [PATCH 0/2] iwlwifi fixes for 2.6.34

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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 02:49:43PM -0700, Reinette Chatre 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

Since the one of these is already in linux-2.6 now, I'll just apply
the other one directly rather than pulling.  I hope that isn't too
inconvenient!

John
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