| Date | Mon, 28 May 2012 16:59:12 -0500 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: [ 89/94] rtlwifi: fix for race condition when firmware is cached |
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On 05/28/2012 03:21 PM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:05:52AM +0900, Greg KH wrote: >> 3.3-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. >> >> ------------------ >> >> From: Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> >> >> commit 574e02abaf816b582685805f0c1150ca9f1f18ee upstream. >> >> In commit b0302ab, the rtlwifi family of drivers was converted to use >> asynchronous firmware loading. Unfortumately, the implementation was >> racy, and the ieee80211 routines could be started before rtl_init_core() >> was called to setup the data. > > Shouldn't also 3.3 have another fix after b0302ab was applied to it, > that is commit 0298dc9 ("rtlwifi: rtl8192de: Fix firmware initialization") ? > I noted it is missing, cherry-picks cleanly here on 3.3
Yes, that patch could be applied to 3.3. I chose not to mark it as Cc Stable as that card is not widely available, thus I did not expect the problem to harm many users. On reflection, I think I made the wrong choice.
Greg, could you please apply mainline commit 0298dc9 to 3.3-stable?
Thanks,
Larry
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