From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from vs166246.vserver.de ([62.75.166.246]:34299 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752299AbYBGJY5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 04:24:57 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: Greg KH Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH stable] b43: Reject new firmware early Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:24:27 +0100 Cc: stable@kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de References: <200801261354.52659.mb@bu3sch.de> <20080207072624.GB15657@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20080207072624.GB15657@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200802071024.27445.mb@bu3sch.de> (sfid-20080207_092503_904525_118EFE5B) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 07 February 2008 08:26:24 Greg KH wrote: > 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 > > Oh wait, I see why it's not in Linus's tree, it doesn't pertain :) > > I'll queue this up, sorry for the noise. Yeah, Linus' tree does have support for this firmware revision we are rejecting with this patch. :) This patch was lost in the 2.6.24 release cycle, so I'd like to push it through -stable to confuse users less with strange warnings caused by using wrong firmware. This patch doesn't remove any functionality or something, it simply transforms a blowing up firmware into a nice error message. :) -- Greetings Michael.