On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:14:16AM +0530, Senthil Balasubramanian wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 11:32:17AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Senthil Balasubramanian > > > <senthilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Due to some recent optimization done in the way the mac address > > >> bytes are written into the OTP memory, some AR9485 chipsets were > > >> forced to use the first byte from the eeprom template and as AR9485 > > >> happens to use generic eeprom template which has 0x1 as the first > > >> byte causes issues in bringing up the card. > > >> > > >> So fixed the eeprom template accordingly to address the issue. > > >> > > >> Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@xxxxxxxxxx> > > >> Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > I don't follow the description too well, all I can tell from it is > > > that there is an issue if the template has 0x01 set instead of 0x0 but > > > it doesn't tell me why. > The leading byte is 1 which is obviously incorrect for mac address. > The reason why 1 is chosen by the driver for mac address is due to > the way the OTP write was optimized and so the driver has taken the > first byte alone from the template and the remaining from OTP. > > > > > Is this not a stable fix? > Oops.. Yes it is. Let me cc to stable. thanks for the stable reminder :-( Are you goint to resubmit a patch w/ a better changelog and Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
