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On 02/15/2012 12:55 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> Is this a fix that should go to 3.3?

That code has been in the driver since 3.0 and it should probably be packported. 
On the other hand, Tim's report is the first one. My suggestion is that it go 
into 3.4.

In addition, I am working on a fix that will completely eliminate all this fixed 
storage.

Larry