Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:62970 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751349AbZEQPi6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 May 2009 11:38:58 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090515144628.GE2773@tuxdriver.com> References: <5a44caba0905150740n3bf90e05i17a74e82f35edcf4@mail.gmail.com> <20090515144628.GE2773@tuxdriver.com> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 16:38:58 +0100 Message-ID: <5a44caba0905170838l2876df90q200f9a8b6411f7ce@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Regression: 2.6.30-rc5 and rt2x00 / rt2500pci From: Ken Lewis To: "John W. Linville" Cc: LKML , linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, "Rafael J. Wysocki" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2009/5/15 John W. Linville : > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:40:44PM +0100, Ken Lewis wrote: >> I've been looking for a bug in Linux-Next that makes my rt2500pci >> wireless card unusable. ... > > Please apply this patch: > > ? ? ? ?http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/0002-mac80211-avoid-NULL-ptr-deref-when-finding-max_rate.patch > > A pull request was sent to Dave M. a couple of days ago. ?I imagine > that it will make its way to Linus shortly. Thank you, John. The patch makes 2.6.30-rc5 work for me -- no more bug dump and the wireless card works fine. I'm about to try and see if it *also* makes rt2x00 work when applied against the linux-next tree (and next-20090515 in particular). Take care. Ken.Lewis