Re: [PATCH] ath5k: prevent infinite loop

[Bob Copeland]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:54:23AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Do these patches need to go to 2.6.30?
> 
> Considering that it locked up my box, I would think that it should. Well, 
> at least the change that checks for the infinite loop.

Yeah, I just wasn't sure if you were using that or -next (which should be
fixed, I guess.)  I mistakenly thought Nick posted commit ishs but they
were blobs, the actual commit was:

e5f1d7f3c192c8ebeb492427bab84611ed5568eb "ath5k: fix interpolation with
equal power levels" in wireless-testing.

Those loops really want a helper function...

Hmm, not too familiar with this particular code but getting back -32768
in the degenerate case seems wrong so I'd be inclined towards a hybrid
version of the two that also sanity checks the steps (corrupt eeproms
are bad, but one rather likely corruption is a big block of ones or 
zeroes).

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Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

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