This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iwl4965: fix 5GHz operation
to the 2.6.39-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
iwl4965-fix-5ghz-operation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.39 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From aac11c1b351413aa3412e258e2b2dcba31777209 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 16:28:55 +0200
Subject: iwl4965: fix 5GHz operation
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
commit aac11c1b351413aa3412e258e2b2dcba31777209 upstream.
rx_status.band is used uninitialized, what disallow to work on 5GHz .
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-4965-lib.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-4965-lib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl-4965-lib.c
@@ -628,11 +628,11 @@ void iwl4965_rx_reply_rx(struct iwl_priv
/* rx_status carries information about the packet to mac80211 */
rx_status.mactime = le64_to_cpu(phy_res->timestamp);
+ rx_status.band = (phy_res->phy_flags & RX_RES_PHY_FLAGS_BAND_24_MSK) ?
+ IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ : IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ;
rx_status.freq =
ieee80211_channel_to_frequency(le16_to_cpu(phy_res->channel),
rx_status.band);
- rx_status.band = (phy_res->phy_flags & RX_RES_PHY_FLAGS_BAND_24_MSK) ?
- IEEE80211_BAND_2GHZ : IEEE80211_BAND_5GHZ;
rx_status.rate_idx =
iwl4965_hwrate_to_mac80211_idx(rate_n_flags, rx_status.band);
rx_status.flag = 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.39/iwl4965-fix-5ghz-operation.patch
queue-2.6.39/iwl4965-correctly-validate-temperature-value.patch
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