From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, chunkeey@web.de, me@bobcopeland.com,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] atheros: fix propagation of bad EEPROM on regulatory init
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:40:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090421194026.GC30916@hera.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239673306-13954-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com>
* Luis R. Rodriguez (lrodriguez@atheros.com) wrote:
> When the EEPROM is not in good condition we cannot continue so
> we currently bail out but only ath5k is bailing out properly.
> Both ath9k and ar9170 were proceeding and if a user were to run
> into this they'd see an obscure panic. Lets propagate the error
> as intended and make sure we inform the user by lifting the
> error message from debug to a kernel error.
Looks like this still isn't upstream.
> Stable note: You can find a port of this page here:
>
> http://bombadil.infradead.org/~mcgrof/patches/ath9k/ath9k-fix-eeprom.patch.txt
(Thanks for the backport ;-)
-chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-21 19:41 UTC|newest]
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2009-04-14 1:41 [PATCH] atheros: fix propagation of bad EEPROM on regulatory init Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-04-21 19:40 ` Chris Wright [this message]
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