crash with iwl3945/iwlagn; fix is in 2.6.28, can it be provided to 2.6.27?

[Tom Davidson]

Hi all,

Bug 470225 crashes systems with Intel 3945/4965/5300 wireless cards on busy
networks. The kernel warning generated is currently the #1 most-reported
item at kerneloops (www.kerneloops.org -- several k reports mostly from FC10
machines)

Intel has produced a patch, and John Linville has applied this to the 2.6.28
kernel (available from koji), but it now sounds like 2.6.28 might not make
it out soon, or ever. Can this fix be applied to the 2.6.27 branch?

Thanks much!
Tom

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470225 (Bug at Redhat)
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1822 (Bug at
Intel)
http://kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=rs_get_rate (Counts of warnings
reported to kerneloops)