[PATCH 0/1] [Intrepid] LP#337929 -- fix LBM handling of ieee80211_regdom

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Wed Apr 8 15:45:45 UTC 2009


Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> We have been seeing panics with Intrepid and Jaunty LBM when
> ieee80211_regdom is specified.  This was fixed via a wireless update in
> Jaunty, but this is not appropriate in Intrepid.  The following patch
> avoids these panics in the Intrepid code base.  Has been tested and
> reported good by the reporter.
> 
> Proposing for SRU to Intrepid.
> 
> -apw
> 
> Andy Whitcroft (1):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: wiphy_update_regulatory: avoid beacons and notifiers
>     if no regulatory_domain
> 
>  updates/compat-wireless-2.6/net/wireless/reg.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> 

While the patch looks fine, I suggest we find a better way of
maintaining it because of the way compat-wireless is updated. For
example, the next time debian/scripts/misc/prepare-compat-wireless.sh is
run, then this patch will get lost.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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