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

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 15:20:03 UTC 2009


Pete Zaitcev (zaitcev at redhat.com) said: 
> > 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?
> 
> Maybe the -stable team will pick it, so we'd get it automatically?

We should still add it in the meantime (there are other dups in bugzilla,
such as #480701) - it's very common hardware, and at least when I was seeing
it I was repeatedly getting hard panics requiring reboot within 1-2 minutes
of the wireless interface being enabled.

Bill




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