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Re: [PATCH] ath9k_hw: fix endian issues with CTLs on AR9003

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On 2010-11-22 9:15 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:50:18PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
>> Parsing data using bitfields is messy, because it makes endian handling
>> much harder. AR9002 and earlier got it right, AR9003 got it wrong.
>> Fix it by getting rid of the CTL related bitfields entirely and use
>> masks instead.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Why does this merit stable consideration?
It's a simple fix and I would like it to make it to stable releases,
because this bug might possibly cause the tx power to be too high in
some instances (when running on big-endian systems), violating
regulatory limits.

- Felix
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