From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, lrodriguez@atheros.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k_hw: fix endian issues with CTLs on AR9003
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:15:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101122201511.GG2117@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290279018-29716-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org>
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:50:18PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote:
> Parsing data using bitfields is messy, because it makes endian handling
> much harder. AR9002 and earlier got it right, AR9003 got it wrong.
> Fix it by getting rid of the CTL related bitfields entirely and use
> masks instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org
Why does this merit stable consideration?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-22 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-20 18:50 [PATCH] ath9k_hw: fix endian issues with CTLs on AR9003 Felix Fietkau
2010-11-22 20:15 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-11-22 20:52 ` Felix Fietkau
2010-11-29 19:50 ` John W. Linville
2010-11-29 21:19 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-29 21:27 ` John W. Linville
2010-11-29 21:35 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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