This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ath9k: remove the WARN_ON that triggers if generating a beacon fails
to the 3.7-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: ath9k-remove-the-warn_on-that-triggers-if-generating-a-beacon-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From 3adcf20afb585993ffee24de36d1975f6b26b120 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Fietkau <n...@openwrt.org> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:16:54 +0100 Subject: ath9k: remove the WARN_ON that triggers if generating a beacon fails From: Felix Fietkau <n...@openwrt.org> commit 3adcf20afb585993ffee24de36d1975f6b26b120 upstream. During teardown, mac80211 will not return a new beacon. This is normal and handled properly in the driver, so there's no need to spam the user with a kernel warning here. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <n...@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linvi...@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c @@ -360,7 +360,6 @@ void ath9k_beacon_tasklet(unsigned long return; bf = ath9k_beacon_generate(sc->hw, vif); - WARN_ON(!bf); if (sc->beacon.bmisscnt != 0) { ath_dbg(common, BSTUCK, "resume beacon xmit after %u misses\n", Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from n...@openwrt.org are queue-3.7/ath9k-disable-the-tasklet-before-taking-the-pcu-lock.patch queue-3.7/ath9k-remove-sc-rx.rxbuflock-to-fix-a-deadlock.patch queue-3.7/ath9k-fix-double-free-bug-on-beacon-generate-failure.patch queue-3.7/ath9k-remove-the-warn_on-that-triggers-if-generating-a-beacon-fails.patch queue-3.7/ath9k-add-a-better-fix-for-the-rx-tasklet-vs-rx-flush-race.patch queue-3.7/ath9k-do-not-link-receive-buffers-during-flush.patch queue-3.7/ath9k-fix-rx-flush-handling.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html