Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:4315 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758452AbXGKQGC (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:06:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:31:11 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Chris Wright Cc: Larry Finger , stable@kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] softmac: Fix ESSID problem Message-ID: <20070711153111.GC9404@tuxdriver.com> References: <4692e2e0.u/1KuH/5hSPtXvF9%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <20070711071418.GS4306@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20070711071418.GS4306@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 12:14:18AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > * Larry Finger (Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net) wrote: > > From: Jean Tourrilhes > > > > Victor Porton reported that the SoftMAC layer had random problem when setting the ESSID : > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8686 After investigation, it turned out to be > > worse, the SoftMAC layer is left in an inconsistent state. The fix is pretty trivial. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes > > Acked-by: Michael Buesch > > Acked-by: Larry Finger > > Please resend when this is accepted upstream. FWIW, I passed it up to Jeff yesterday. John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com