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On 05/11/2009 10:38 AM, Chris Clayton wrote:
> Thanks Jiri. That patch applies (with offsets) and prevents the oops.
> I think the patch that caused this oops was sent to stable, so  I
> guess this needs pushing to Linus quite quickly so that it can go to
> stable too.

Yes, you're right, it now oopses with cards that support only one 802.11
band, but it's still better than silently corrupting memory. Of course,
the oops-fixing patch should be merged into the stable aswell.

Thanks for testing.