linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #12490] ath5k related kernel panic in 2.6.29-rc1

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Date:	Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:03:45 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Sergey S. Kostyliov" <rathamahata@...il.com>,
	Felix Fietkau <nbd@...nwrt.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug #12490] ath5k related kernel panic in 2.6.29-rc1

> Anyway here's a patch to buy some time.  Johannes, would this be
> an acceptable band-aid for now?

This is going to make it print two warnings for one occurrence of the
problem though. I'd much prefer to put something into minstrel.c to
catch when _it_ returns bogus values and in that case return 0, that way
at least the bandaid is restricted to the code it patches up.

johannes

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