]> git.karo-electronics.de Git - karo-tx-linux.git/commit
ath5k: enable EEPROM checksum check
authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:23:26 +0000 (17:23 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:03:28 +0000 (14:03 -0800)
commit8bf3d79bc401ca417ccf9fc076d3295d1a71dbf5
treefc22d807523639dd0e8e16d3d3f2c9e42b788596
parentf0da7d9ab2ab222669e51f0404dc9b4e2fef9944
ath5k: enable EEPROM checksum check

commit 512414b0bed0d376ac4d5ec1dd6f0b1a3551febc upstream.

Without this we have no gaurantee of the integrity of the
EEPROM and are likely to encounter a lot of bogus bug reports
due to actual issues on the EEPROM. With the EEPROM checksum
check in place we can easily rule those issues out.

If you run patch during a revert *you* have a card with a busted
EEPROM and only older kernel will support that concoction. This
patch is a trade off between not accepitng bogus EEPROMs and
avoiding bogus bug reports allowing developers to focus instead
on real concrete issues.

If stable keeps bogus bug reports because of a possibly busted EEPROM
feel free to apply this there too.

Tested on an AR5414

Cc: jirislaby@gmail.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: rjw@sisk.pl
Cc: me@bobcopeland.com
Cc: david.quan@atheros.com
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/eeprom.c