On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 04:08:18PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 10:23:12AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > commit 115dad7a7f42e68840392767323ceb9306dbdb36
> > Author: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
> > Date:   Fri Jan 14 00:06:27 2011 +0100
> > 
> >     ath9k_hw: partially revert "fix dma descriptor rx error bit parsing"
> >     
> >     The rx error bit parsing was changed to consider PHY errors and various
> >     decryption errors separately. While correct according to the 
> > documentation,
> >     this is causing spurious decryption error reports in some situations.
> >     
> >     Fix this by restoring the original order of the checks in those places,
> >     where the errors are meant to be mutually exclusive.
> >     
> >     If a CRC error is reported, then MIC failure and decryption errors
> >     are irrelevant, and a PHY error is unlikely.
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <[email protected]>
> >     Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
> > 
> > The problem this addresses appears to show itself in 2.6.38.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31452
> 
> I would, but it doesn't apply :(
> 
> Care to provide a backported version?

Seems it's already there as 5002397e6c6f9c2f5fb92d8990eb2663e43a3012...

Thanks!

John
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