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Message-ID: <20090518131145.GB2814@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:11:45 -0400
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To: Ken Lewis <kennylewis@...il.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-net@...r.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: Regression: 2.6.30-rc5 and rt2x00 / rt2500pci
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 04:38:58PM +0100, Ken Lewis wrote:
> 2009/5/15 John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>:
> > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:40:44PM +0100, Ken Lewis wrote:
> >> I've been looking for a bug in Linux-Next that makes my rt2500pci
> >> wireless card unusable. ...
> >
> > Please apply this patch:
> >
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/0002-mac80211-avoid-NULL-ptr-deref-when-finding-max_rate.patch
> >
> > A pull request was sent to Dave M. a couple of days ago. I imagine
> > that it will make its way to Linus shortly.
>
> Thank you, John. The patch makes 2.6.30-rc5 work for me -- no more bug
> dump and the wireless card works fine.
>
> I'm about to try and see if it *also* makes rt2x00 work when applied
> against the linux-next tree (and next-20090515 in particular).
I'm guessing it didn't help with this part, since -next should have
already had the patch...?
John
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