linux-kernel - Re: Strange wireless card?

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Date:	Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:24:08 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...izon.net>
To:	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strange wireless card?

On Saturday 08 August 2009, Roel Kluin wrote:
>Op 05-08-09 05:06, Gene Heskett schreef:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Can anyone tell me if this pci wireless card is supported, or what its
>> status is?
>>
>>>>From lspci -v:
>> 01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335
>> [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03) Subsystem: Netgear WG311v3 802.11g
>> Wireless PCI Adapter
>>
>> I have built a 2.6.31-rc5 kernel with the Marvel stuffs all enabled, but
>> even a modprobe mwl8k, while apparently loading the driver, doesn't create
>> any wireless devices in /dev.
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers.
>
>It could be due to a regression I caused, see this thread,
>
>http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/8/77
>
>Could you test it with this?
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c
> b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c index d699737..49fceb9 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/assoc.c
>@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int get_common_rates(struct lbs_private *priv,
> {
> 	u8 *card_rates = lbs_bg_rates;
> 	int ret = 0, i, j;
>-	u8 tmp[(ARRAY_SIZE(lbs_bg_rates) - 1) * (*rates_size - 1)];
>+	u8 tmp[*rates_size * ARRAY_SIZE(lbs_bg_rates) - 1];
> 	size_t tmp_size = 0;
>
> 	/* For each rate in card_rates that exists in rate1, copy to tmp */

This is a total failure when I attempt to patch my 2.6.31-rc5 tree.  The patch 
trigger phrase lines are even so different that I am not comfortable trying to 
apply it by hand.

So obviously there have been other, intervening patches also.
If this makes it into rc6, maybe it will work?

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