Re: [PATCH 3/3] iwlwifi: error checking for number of tfds in queue

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:01:41PM -0800, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> From: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
> 
> When receive reply_tx and ready to decrement the count for number of
> tfds in queue, do error checking to prevent error condition and
> tfds_in_queue become negative number.
> 
> This fix starts to address
> http://bugzilla.intellinuxwireless.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2160 by preventing
> the bad situation from propagation when it does occur. This is needed while
> the cause of the decrement error is still traced.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
> CC: stable@kernel.org

Since this apparently doesn't amount to a fix for the cited issue,
it doesn't seem worth pusing for 2.6.33 at the moment.  Should I take
it in wireless-next-2.6?  Or hold-out for a corrected version?

John
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