From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-git19] BUG due to bad argument to ieee80211softmac_assoc_work Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:47:15 -0600 Message-ID: <4581F093.3020806@lwfinger.net> References: <5b8e20700612131017n1cd8aff3qbe41351435427e25@mail.gmail.com> <341A1CE8-DF10-4CD5-B675-89449256EAB5@deine-taler.de> <5b8e20700612141348l66af58b6lb6899b710d1d9c14@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Uli Kunitz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik Return-path: To: Michael Bommarito In-Reply-To: <5b8e20700612141348l66af58b6lb6899b710d1d9c14@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Michael Bommarito wrote: > Hello Uli, > Yes, apologies, I had been waiting for an abandoned bugzilla entry > to get attention, and when I realized it was assigned to a dead-end, I > had simply posted the patch without checking for prior messages. > I was further confused by the fact that it hadn't made its way into > any of the 19-gitX sets (and for that matter, the window for > 2.6.20-rc1 has come and gone and this still remains unfixed), despite > how clear the error was and how trivial the fix seems. I was not aware that a bugzilla entry existed for this problem. I learned about it when my system would hang on bootup if the bcm43xx card was installed. By bisection, I learned which commit was causing the problem. About that time, the complete fix was discussed on the netdev and bcm43xx mailing lists. I was a little perturbed that only part of the fix was accepted into 2.6.19-gitX. The full fix was pushed to John Linville on Dec. 10, who pushed it on to Jeff Garzik on Dec. 11. I have not yet seen any message sending it on to Andrew Morton or Linus. A bug fix will always be accepted, particularly one that only changes 2 lines - it is only a new feature that will no longer be accepted once the -rc1 stage is reached. If this message doesn't do the trick and it isn't included by -rc2, I'll ping Jeff to see what happened. Changes always take longer than one likes, but one needs to be careful. Larry