[Maverick SRU] Fix rt2x00 firmware loading regression

[Tim Gardner]

On 02/16/2011 02:44 PM, Seth Forshee wrote:
> 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(-)
>
>

It seems that if rt2x00 is fundamentally broken, then it would be hard 
for us to make it any worse.

acked, applied, and pushed.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com