Re: Regression: 2.6.30-rc5 and rt2x00 / rt2500pci

From: John W. Linville
Date: Mon May 18 2009 - 09:15:24 EST


On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 04:38:58PM +0100, Ken Lewis wrote:
> 2009/5/15 John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:40:44PM +0100, Ken Lewis wrote:
> >> I've been looking for a bug in Linux-Next that makes my rt2500pci
> >> wireless card unusable. ...
> >
> > Please apply this patch:
> >
> >        http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/0002-mac80211-avoid-NULL-ptr-deref-when-finding-max_rate.patch
> >
> > A pull request was sent to Dave M. a couple of days ago.  I imagine
> > that it will make its way to Linus shortly.
>
> Thank you, John. The patch makes 2.6.30-rc5 work for me -- no more bug
> dump and the wireless card works fine.
>
> I'm about to try and see if it *also* makes rt2x00 work when applied
> against the linux-next tree (and next-20090515 in particular).

I'm guessing it didn't help with this part, since -next should have
already had the patch...?

John
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