Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2009-05-20

From: David Miller
Date: Wed May 20 2009 - 20:34:26 EST


From: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 15:34:47 -0400

> Another volley of fixes intended for 2.6.30 -- I know the velocity
> is a bit high for this part of the cycle, but these are mostly small
> and well-tested.
>
> The one from me is a "brown paper bag" fix. My earlier attempt to fix
> the potential buffer overflow in airo was actually a no-op due to an
> (unknown to me) type overflow... :-(
>
> The ath5k fixes from Forrest Zhang and Pavel Roskin together fix some
> regressions with 5GHz operation. The one from Fabio Rossi avoids an
> infinite loop reported by Stephen Rostedt.
>
> The wext fix addresses a possible buffer overflow. The cfg80211 fix
> addresses a user-reported oops. The one from Roel avoids and index
> past the end of an array.
>
> One of iwlwifi patches avoids a deadlock. The other iwlwifi patch
> simply enables the use of the firmware image they just released.
> That one is worth taking for 2.6.30 because the new firmware fixes
> a couple of bugs that show-up as kernel bug reports.
>
> Please let me know if there are problems!

Pulled, thanks John!
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