b43 open-firmware new snapshot

Hi, Here comes another snapshot of the Opensource firmware for the b43 wireless core. http://bu3sch.de/b43/openfw/b43-openfw-20080614.tar.bz2 The firmware does _ONLY_ work in monitor mode. The TX path is not implemented, so it can not associate or whatever. It can only receive packets

[PATCH stable] b43: Fix noise calculation WARN_ON

This removes a WARN_ON that is responsible for the following koops: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=b43_generate_noise_sample The comment in the patch describes why it's safe to simply remove the check. This patch is upstream in John Linville's wireless-testing.git tree as commit

[PATCH stable] b43: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in DMA code

This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference in an error path of the DMA allocation error checking code. In case the DMA allocation address is invalid, the dev pointer is dereferenced for unmapping of the buffer. This is a cut-down version of 3ab4b64c46784ed83f213bf4e1b51d9c55858600 which is

Re: [PATCH stable] b43: Fix noise calculation WARN_ON

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 11:00:14PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: This removes a WARN_ON that is responsible for the following koops: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=b43_generate_noise_sample The comment in the patch describes why it's safe to simply remove the check. This

Re: [PATCH stable] b43: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in DMA code

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:57:55PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: This fixes a possible NULL pointer dereference in an error path of the DMA allocation error checking code. In case the DMA allocation address is invalid, the dev pointer is dereferenced for unmapping of the buffer. This is a