Re: [PATCH 2.6.37 v2 1/2] ath9k_hw: fix endian issues with CTLs on AR9003

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

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:35:37PM +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.
> This might lead to either using too high or too low tx power values,
> depending on frequency and eeprom settings.
> 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
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c |  314 ++++++++++++------------
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.h |    9 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/eeprom.c        |    6 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/eeprom.h        |   13 +-
>  4 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-)

patching file drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 57.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 296.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 568 (offset -14 lines).
Hunk #4 FAILED at 873.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 1159.
Hunk #6 FAILED at 1451.
Hunk #7 FAILED at 1737.
Hunk #8 FAILED at 2029.
Hunk #9 FAILED at 2315.
Hunk #10 FAILED at 2606.
Hunk #11 FAILED at 2892.
Hunk #12 succeeded at 1827 (offset -2536 lines).
Hunk #13 succeeded at 1847 (offset -2536 lines).
10 out of 13 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.c.rej
patching file drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ar9003_eeprom.h
Hunk #1 succeeded at 261 with fuzz 1 (offset -9 lines).
patching file drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/eeprom.c
patching file drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/eeprom.h

Please base the patch against this tree:

	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git

Thanks,

John
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