linux-kernel - Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2010-12-15

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Message-Id: <20101215.095414.193705657.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:54:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	linville@...driver.com
Cc:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2010-12-15

From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:56:42 -0500

> This is a batch of fixes intended for 2.6.37.
> 
> The biggest changes fix an issue where the iwlagn driver will misread
> the EEPROM information for some devices that will soon be in the wild.
> The initial impulse was to rewrite the EEPROM code, but I pushed back on
> that for 2.6.37.  The compromise is to add the new EEPROM reading code,
> but only to invoke it for the new devices.  Older devices will still use
> the existing (and tested) EEPROM code.  Note that all devices will use
> the new code in 2.6.38 and beyond.
> 
> This also includes a pull of bluetooth fixes from Gustavo Padovan.  That
> includes a null pointer fix and a fix for a regression that broke the
> DUN profile -- say goodbye to your emergency cell-phone Internet
> connection without that!
> 
> Other patches include some device ID additions for p54usb, a fix to
> avoid log spam resulting from suspend/resume with USB-based wireless
> devices that don't define their own suspend hook, a null ptr fix for the
> libertas driver, and another null pointer fix related to IBSS merges.
> 
> Please let me know if there are problems!

Looks good, pulled, thanks John.
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