From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-09-24
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:09:01 +0200
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Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
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To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Hi John,

> > > One more for 2.6.27 -- a fix for a possible interrupt storm.  There is
> > > even a link in the commit log to a youtube video of the storm in
> > > progress. :-)
> > > 
> > > Let me know if there are problems!
> > 
> > Can you also add this one? It doesn't panic the kernel when a frame from
> > firmware is invalid.
> > 
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122219037706528&w=2
> 
> Is there an open bug report for that anywhere?  Is this something
> that real users (no offense to Johannes) are likely to hit?

I was hitting this one a frequent basis on a 64-bit Linux running on an
off-the-shelf X61.

Regards

Marcel