Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:06:35 +0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ 89/94] rtlwifi: fix for race condition when firmware is cached |
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On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 04:59:12PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > 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?
Now applied, thanks.
greg k-h
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