Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:55:22 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [025/151] ath5k: enable EEPROM checksum check |
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2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
commit 512414b0bed0d376ac4d5ec1dd6f0b1a3551febc upstream.
Without this we have no gaurantee of the integrity of the EEPROM and are likely to encounter a lot of bogus bug reports due to actual issues on the EEPROM. With the EEPROM checksum check in place we can easily rule those issues out.
If you run patch during a revert *you* have a card with a busted EEPROM and only older kernel will support that concoction. This patch is a trade off between not accepitng bogus EEPROMs and avoiding bogus bug reports allowing developers to focus instead on real concrete issues.
If stable keeps bogus bug reports because of a possibly busted EEPROM feel free to apply this there too.
Tested on an AR5414
Cc: jirislaby@gmail.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: rjw@sisk.pl Cc: me@bobcopeland.com Cc: david.quan@atheros.com Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/eeprom.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/eeprom.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/eeprom.c @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ ath5k_eeprom_init_header(struct ath5k_hw struct ath5k_eeprom_info *ee = &ah->ah_capabilities.cap_eeprom; int ret; u16 val; + u32 cksum, offset; /* * Read values from EEPROM and store them in the capability structure @@ -111,7 +112,6 @@ ath5k_eeprom_init_header(struct ath5k_hw if (ah->ah_ee_version < AR5K_EEPROM_VERSION_3_0) return 0; -#ifdef notyet /* * Validate the checksum of the EEPROM date. There are some * devices with invalid EEPROMs. @@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ ath5k_eeprom_init_header(struct ath5k_hw ATH5K_ERR(ah->ah_sc, "Invalid EEPROM checksum 0x%04x\n", cksum); return -EIO; } -#endif AR5K_EEPROM_READ_HDR(AR5K_EEPROM_ANT_GAIN(ah->ah_ee_version), ee_ant_gain);
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