From: "Bob Copeland" <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, linville@tuxdriver.com
Cc: ath5k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>, maximlevitsky@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] ath5k_tasklet_rx BUG_ON(bf->skb == NULL)
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:37:49 -0500
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On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 13:12:34 +0000 (GMT), Hugh Dickins wrote
> Hi Bob,
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Bob Copeland wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:35:29 +0000 (GMT), Hugh Dickins wrote
> > > But I haven't seen any allocation failure for several days.
> > > I didn't get any while trying to simplify the reproduction,
> > 
> > I'll go ahead and push this upstream then today or tomorrow; let me 
> > know if you run into any problems with more testing.
> 
> Just a prod: I've not seen your fix go into the 2.6.29-rc tree yet.

Good point, it is queued for 2.6.30.  John, would there be any problem
with including a8e3cd514, "ath5k: fix bf->skb==NULL panic in 
ath5k_tasklet_rx" for 2.6.29?

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