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From: Stefan Bader on 31 Mar 2010 03:30
Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:16:02AM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
>> Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 03:09:35PM -0700, reinette chatre wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 13:41 -0700, gregkh(a)suse.de wrote:
>>>>> This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled
>>>>>
>>>>> Subject: iwlwifi: Silence tfds_in_queue message
>>>>>
>>>>> to the 2.6.32-stable tree.
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> Please note that this patch is really just masking a problem introduced
>>>> by a 2.6.32 backported patch. The real fix is
>>>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/86722/ which should be included in
>>>> 2.6.32.
>>> What is the git commit id for that patch? patchwork links don't help me
>>> at all.
>> There isn't one. The main problem only exists in 2.6.32.y
>> because the final hunk missed to remove the nfreed++ from
>> ouside the if.
>>
>> Introduced by backport of in 2.6.32.y
>>
>> commit a120e912eb51e347f36c71b60a1d13af74d30e83
>> Author: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka(a)redhat.com>
>> Date: Fri Feb 19 15:47:33 2010 -0800
>>
>> iwlwifi: sanity check before counting number of tfds can be free
>
> So, what exactly should I be doing here for the .32 stable queue?

git'ified verrsion of patchworks patch attached.

Stefan

> what a mess,
>
> greg k-h
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