Re: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-09-24

From: Tomas Winkler
Date: Thu Sep 25 2008 - 10:57:53 EST


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:41 PM, John W. Linville
<linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 01:47:02PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 17:17 -0600, John W. Linville wrote:
>> > Dave,
>> >
>> > One more for 2.6.27 -- a fix for a possible interrupt storm. There is
>> > even a link in the commit log to a youtube video of the storm in
>> > progress. :-)
>> >
>> > Let me know if there are problems!
>>
>> Can you also add this one? It doesn't panic the kernel when a frame from
>> firmware is invalid.
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122219037706528&w=2
>
> Is there an open bug report for that anywhere? Is this something
> that real users (no offense to Johannes) are likely to hit?

I'm just exporting the major bugs from our internal database to
buzilla, 5000 is new so
we are hitting the problems during testing before users report them.

Now I don't know if it was good idea to push the driver upstream same
time as it hits the market.
Tomas
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