From: "Roland Vossen" <rvossen@broadcom.com>
To: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Clemens Noss" <cnoss@gmx.de>, "gregkh@suse.de" <gregkh@suse.de>,
"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: fix cast to pointer from integer
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:53:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD253B0.8050802@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110516203333.GB17698@kroah.com>
>> Greg, please also merge this to the staging-linus branch since it
>> might resolve an instability issue.
>
> It "might"?
Correction: I tested it now. Indeed it resolves a problem (segmentation
fault) upon dissociation on amd64.
> Is this a regression? Do people see the problem on the .38 kernel as
> well?
People on the .38 kernel see the problem even worse: they experience a
crash on dissociation on both i386 and amd64.
> It's way too late for anything but severe regressions to be sent to
> Linus at this point in time...
Understood. Since behavior has not regressed, I think this fix does not
qualify to be sent to Linus. Perhaps we can get it into a
compat-wireless package.
Thanks, Roland.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-17 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1305492330-19575-1-git-send-email-cnoss@gmx.de>
2011-05-16 11:09 ` [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: fix cast to pointer from integer Roland Vossen
2011-05-16 20:33 ` Greg KH
2011-05-17 10:53 ` Roland Vossen [this message]
2011-05-15 17:04 Clemens Noss
2011-05-15 18:10 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2011-05-15 19:54 ` Arend van Spriel
2011-05-15 19:59 ` Arend van Spriel
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