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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] cfg80211: validate channel settings across interfaces
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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:10:51 +0300
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Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> writes:

>> For example, when I run:
>> $ iwconfig wlan0 channel <ch> essid <essid>
>> 
>> then the command prompt never returns and system becomes progressively
>> unresponsive. The logs do not contain any details of the problem.
>
> I have the same problem here as well.

This patch fixes the issue:

commit 21e433f9ea04c319cc12b4094f292a8f1ad709e9
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Sat Aug 8 11:03:58 2009 +0200

    cfg80211: fix locking for SIWFREQ

Johannes sent it to the list this today and it's not in wireless-testing
yet.

-- 
Kalle Valo