Return-path: Received: from xc.sipsolutions.net ([83.246.72.84]:36399 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752986AbYIYM22 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:28:28 -0400 Subject: Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-09-24 From: Johannes Berg To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Zhu Yi , "davem@davemloft.net" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <20080925114133.GA5044@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20080925_134212_618549_FDAECEF8) References: <20080924231720.GD3639@tuxdriver.com> <1222321622.2510.455.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> <20080925114133.GA5044@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20080925_134212_618549_FDAECEF8) Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-7h1p5FZDt26W575v1jGm" Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:27:45 +0200 Message-Id: <1222345665.10563.75.camel@johannes.berg> (sfid-20080925_142838_109849_2D232AA8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-7h1p5FZDt26W575v1jGm Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 07:41 -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > http://marc.info/?l=3Dlinux-wireless&m=3D122219037706528&w=3D2 >=20 > Is there an open bug report for that anywhere? Is this something > that real users (no offense to Johannes) are likely to hit? Actually, I now think that we don't want the patch. It appears that when this situation happens, the hardware has scribbled over memory elsewhere (most likely because of wrong DMA programming) and in that case I suppose we'd rather fail than corrupt disk buffers et. al. johannes --=-7h1p5FZDt26W575v1jGm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJI24O9AAoJEKVg1VMiehFYm28P/16DzAPudMZvGFyLzmSXGWk7 TCihtPBvGHC/2st4jLP2CycXy35zkJ+zyuoWuAdriWGS9YSlY3oOkKh/dTXmNMe1 f2RNIpWjd+5uPld3fasVWdlorABwtGs4aZPqyeM/XswxfY3GraA+oR8ztELgt1Rr se4Uet9Zx3ljfj+n0pXZgZN0jbQHz344z4czJWc7B7mC/ArvTxma9Y/vAfq2Ve0w B+cEYsFQzGwYTKB800bS5yiAWYf9CZlOMlI4OhrUAmzNZzDMaM/w7+dh3xGzBGnw tP5bOWENr6gff+hc8CzX/nele1pGLHtfdvIfcDWYhrMfwfdARpmGpqdzO2J4FDo8 JQEiJr6JyOEiPxNQUEQvCYzmwO3OsIIVzoftXNerPn/B6UcmxDrcaVGjSXdd+hvn 6bVob2+BWNEIKEVBcCVfdgsUZXRMPi+dW0G1x5eVgbPtk5+HkSG1OyDk+5WaZbYc 6SvvDhk2A8W617903lDicr8WQc3aJhrYFB572coVkAMRtAADYQQIbVmXQmMBFgWX Vk/KxFw3R0webXfJ6WEEbWiCNuzSexX/JMpmas68QArQ9jKYc+4D4Zaw5ao0L6aH W7agBxka4dLokvXWy/Y1tP2g3Oj/H2irOe7vhwVUDOjPLVTxHtCeo4oi8lANgjiz /6KV+NJNEUOLB9dhRuxm =OxFX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-7h1p5FZDt26W575v1jGm--