Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:39578 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750978AbZERNPP (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 09:15:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 09:11:45 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Ken Lewis Cc: LKML , linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: Regression: 2.6.30-rc5 and rt2x00 / rt2500pci Message-ID: <20090518131145.GB2814@tuxdriver.com> References: <5a44caba0905150740n3bf90e05i17a74e82f35edcf4@mail.gmail.com> <20090515144628.GE2773@tuxdriver.com> <5a44caba0905170838l2876df90q200f9a8b6411f7ce@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <5a44caba0905170838l2876df90q200f9a8b6411f7ce@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 04:38:58PM +0100, Ken Lewis wrote: > 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). I'm guessing it didn't help with this part, since -next should have already had the patch...? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.