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Message-ID: <43e72e891003111707v71af9eb9r2da0328f6a877886@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:07:59 -0800 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com> To: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linville@...driver.com, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com> Subject: Re: [FYI] cfg80211: HT40 fix for APs with odd country IEs for 2.6.33.y On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@...eros.com> wrote: > Just a heads up to distribution maintainers, 2.6.33 has an > issue with disabling HT40 channels if you connect to an AP > that has an odd country IE. Specifically if your AP sends > out country IEs as follows: > > [1-1] > [2-2] > [3-3] > [4-4] > [5-5] > [6-6] > [7-7] > [8-8] > [9-9] > [10-10] > [11-11] > > instead of like this: > > [1-11] > > Then HT40 gets disabled. This issue was fixed on 2.6.34 and the fixes > were not propagated to 2.6.33.y as they are not "critical" fixes > per se, but if you do value this as "important" you may want to > fetch them and apply them to your 2.6.33.y kernel tree. > > I've backported them and stashed them here: > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/patches/cfg80211/2010-03/reg-fixes-33/01-ht40-odd-country-ie/ If no one has complaints I'm going to cherry pick this seires and the suspend/resume fixes on compat-wireless-2.6.33.y releases. Luis -- 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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