Re: Oops in wireless from today's git

Chris Clayton
2009-05-11T08:38:29Z

2009/5/11 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>:
> On 05/11/2009 12:29 AM, Chris Clayton wrote:
>> 2009/5/10 Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>:
>>> On 05/10/2009 09:39 PM, Chris Clayton wrote:
>>>> I've just done a git pull and built, installed and booted the kernel.
>>>> Unfortunately I got the oops below.
>>> What's your HEAD? Looks like the issue solved by
>>> 0cc113d866fa87c1455cbaff8d1f7ac054090bd5.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, I'm a real novice git user, but if by HEAD you mean the latest
>> commit, its a4d7749be5de4a7261bcbe3c7d96c748792ec455. The file
>> .git/FETCH_HEAD contains:
>>
>> a4d7749be5de4a7261bcbe3c7d96c748792ec455                branch
>> 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
>
> Ah, I though you're on wireless-testing git. Could you try to apply this
> patch?
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=0cc113d866fa87c1455cbaff8d1f7ac054090bd5
>

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.

Tested-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>

Thanks again.

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