On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 08:36 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > Great, thanks. I'm not really sure which one to apply, and if we apply > > the 8877 one we'll also want to update the reg db (that you aren't > > using). A lot of people are in Barcelona right now though, so that might > > be a week or so until we can close this. > > I'm in Barcelona all this week, but a nice summary of what I'm supposed > to do here for the stable tree would be great to have when ever you > figure it out, don't wait for me to return, my email queues up just fine :)
Sure :) So first of all, I'm sure (even without Eddie having tested it) that the bug affects 3.7-rc as well, not just 3.6 stable, since the same patch was applied there. Therefore, we're looking for a fix for that as well. There are two possible fixes (that I can think of right now), both of which Eddie tested. One is a change to my old change, to make it only adhere to the regulatory rules that the *driver* asked for, which will still fix the iwlwifi problem of crashing the firmware in situations like Eddie's. However, it's a bit strange to be ignoring our regulatory rules. The other fix is a relaxation of the regulatory rules to allow 40 MHz operation involving channels 12 and 13 (like in Eddie's setup, where channel 9 HT40+ is used, which means the effective channel spans from the bottom of channel 6 to the top of channel 13.) This seems like a much cleaner solution, but the change needs to be done in two places (both the kernel's idea of the "world roaming" regulatory domain, and userspace's). I prefer the second fix, but want to run it by somebody more familiar with regulatory rules. Ultimately, I'll apply either one for 3.7, and tag it with Cc stable. johannes -- 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
