This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mwifiex: Call pci_release_region after calling pci_disable_device

to the 3.8-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:
     mwifiex-call-pci_release_region-after-calling-pci_disable_device.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 5b0d9b218b74042ff72bf4bfda6eeb2e4bf98397 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yogesh Ashok Powar <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:49:48 -0700
Subject: mwifiex: Call pci_release_region after calling pci_disable_device

From: Yogesh Ashok Powar <[email protected]>

commit 5b0d9b218b74042ff72bf4bfda6eeb2e4bf98397 upstream.

"drivers should call pci_release_region() AFTER
calling pci_disable_device()"

Please refer section 3.2 Request MMIO/IOP resources
in Documentation/PCI/pci.txt

Signed-off-by: Avinash Patil <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Ashok Powar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/pcie.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/pcie.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/pcie.c
@@ -1831,9 +1831,9 @@ static void mwifiex_pcie_cleanup(struct
        if (pdev) {
                pci_iounmap(pdev, card->pci_mmap);
                pci_iounmap(pdev, card->pci_mmap1);
+               pci_disable_device(pdev);
                pci_release_region(pdev, 2);
                pci_release_region(pdev, 0);
-               pci_disable_device(pdev);
                pci_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
        }
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.8/mwifiex-use-pci_release_region-instead-of-a-pci_release_regions.patch
queue-3.8/mwifiex-call-pci_release_region-after-calling-pci_disable_device.patch
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