[Maverick SRU] Fix rt2x00 firmware loading regression

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Wed Feb 16 21:44:13 UTC 2011


SRU Request:

Impact: A regression was introduced between lucid and maverick that 
causes firmware loading to fail with the RaLink RT2860 wireless adapter 
on amd64.

Fix: The following patches backported from upstream address this issue.  
The first two are included in >=2.6.38-rc1, the third is currently in 
wireless-next-2.6.

Testcase: Tested by reporter and author of upstream patches (LP 
#659143). Without these patches WLAN is not functional with RT2860 on 
amd64 kernels. WLAN becomes functional with the patches applied.

Seth Forshee (1):
  rt2x00: Check for errors from skb_pad() calls

Wolfgang Kufner (2):
  rt2x00: Pad beacon to multiple of 32 bits.
  rt2x00: Fix firmware loading regression on x86_64.

 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c |   18 ++++++++++++++----
 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00pci.h |    2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c   |   17 ++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)





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