Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:24:11 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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       Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
       Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
       Chris Wedgwood <reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org>,
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       torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>,
       "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: [patch 37/49] iwl3945: do not send scan command if channel count
	zero
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2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>

commit 14b5433606289dbc5b6fd70ced11462f80e95003 upstream.

Do not send scan command if no channels to scan.

This avoids a Microcode error as reported in:
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1650
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11806
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122437145211886&w=2

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
@@ -6259,6 +6259,11 @@ static void iwl3945_bg_request_scan(stru
 				direct_mask,
 				(void *)&scan->data[le16_to_cpu(scan->tx_cmd.len)]);
 
+	if (scan->channel_count == 0) {
+		IWL_DEBUG_SCAN("channel count %d\n", scan->channel_count);
+		goto done;
+	}
+
 	cmd.len += le16_to_cpu(scan->tx_cmd.len) +
 	    scan->channel_count * sizeof(struct iwl3945_scan_channel);
 	cmd.data = scan;

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