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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 -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@...driver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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