Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2009-11-11

David Miller
2009-11-11T19:20:06Z

From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:22:55 -0500

> Here is another batch of small fixes intended for 2.6.32. Along with a
> number of simple fixes, there is also a MAINTAINERS update, some LED
> handling quirks for ath5k, a libertas beautification that is a prereq
> for a libertas fix, and an iwlwifi fix that was already sent for
> net-next-2.6 but which is needed to support an iwlwifi regression fix.
>
> My personal favorite is the ath5k mcast filtering fix. The problem
> only revealed itself when using IP autoconf w/ multicast DNS... :-)
>
> Please let me know if there are problems!

Pulled, but that libertas "coding style cleanup" really pushes
the edge of what I'm willing to take into net-2.6 right now.

And I don't want to hear anything about how it "makes the bug fix
change simpler". That absolutely doesn't apply when we're this deep
in -rc territory.

> P.S. Due to the aformentioned iwlwifi fix, this will cause -next
> conflicts for sfr. You may want to pull net-2.6 into net-next-2.6 after
> pulling this. The iwlwifi conflicts can be resolved by taking the bigger
> hunks...

Yep, I noticed this, I'll sort it out, thanks.