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SubjectRe: pull request: wireless-2.6 2008-09-24
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On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 07:41 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:

> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122219037706528&w=2
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> Is there an open bug report for that anywhere? Is this something
> that real users (no offense to Johannes) are likely to hit?

Actually, I now think that we don't want the patch. It appears that when
this situation happens, the hardware has scribbled over memory elsewhere
(most likely because of wrong DMA programming) and in that case I
suppose we'd rather fail than corrupt disk buffers et. al.

johannes
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