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Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 23:25:43 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
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Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH stable] b43: Reject new firmware early
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On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:54:52PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> We must reject new incompatible firmware early to avoid
> running into strange transmission failures.
> 
> The current development tree supports newer firmware revisions.
> These revisions cause strange failures on the stable 2.6.24 kernel.
> Add a check to avoid confusing users a lot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>

I don't see this in Linus's tree yet, can you please resend it to
stable@kernel.org when it gets there?

thanks,

greg k-h