linux-kernel - Re: [ 22/68] ath9k_hw: avoid possible infinite loop in ar9003_get_pll_sqsum

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Message-ID: <20120713014939.GA6732@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:49:39 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Rolf Offermanns <rolf.offermanns@....net>,
	Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha@....qualcomm.com>,
	Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilb@....qualcomm.com>,
	Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@....qualcomm.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [ 22/68] ath9k_hw: avoid possible infinite loop in
 ar9003_get_pll_sqsum_dvc

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:38:35PM -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 04:01:56PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > 
> > 3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@....qualcomm.com>
> > 
> > commit f18e3c6b67f448ec47b3a5b242789bd3d5644879 upstream.
> > 
> > "ath9k: Fix softlockup in AR9485" with commit id
> > 64bc1239c790e051ff677e023435d770d2ffa174 fixed the reported
> > issue, yet its better to avoid the possible infinite loop
> > in ar9003_get_pll_sqsum_dvc by having a timeout as suggested
> > by ath9k maintainers.
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg92126.html.
> > Based on my testing PLL's locking measurement is done in
> > ~200us (2 iterations).
> 
> Missing the rest of the patch here.

Yeah, quilt went crazy and messed things up, the originals are fine,
but something went really wrong when the mbox was created, sorry.  A
number of different patches didn't go through properly.

greg k-h
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