Return-path: Received: from mms3.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.19]:4931 "EHLO MMS3.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753149Ab1EQKxv (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2011 06:53:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4DD253B0.8050802@broadcom.com> (sfid-20110517_125355_002257_FB1F79C7) Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 12:53:36 +0200 From: "Roland Vossen" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Greg KH" cc: "Clemens Noss" , "gregkh@suse.de" , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: fix cast to pointer from integer References: <1305492330-19575-1-git-send-email-cnoss@gmx.de> <4DD105FE.9040500@broadcom.com> <20110516203333.GB17698@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20110516203333.GB17698@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >> Greg, please also merge this to the staging-linus branch since it >> might resolve an instability issue. > > It "might"? Correction: I tested it now. Indeed it resolves a problem (segmentation fault) upon dissociation on amd64. > Is this a regression? Do people see the problem on the .38 kernel as > well? People on the .38 kernel see the problem even worse: they experience a crash on dissociation on both i386 and amd64. > It's way too late for anything but severe regressions to be sent to > Linus at this point in time... Understood. Since behavior has not regressed, I think this fix does not qualify to be sent to Linus. Perhaps we can get it into a compat-wireless package. Thanks, Roland.