Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc8: Reported regressions from 2.6.28

From: "John W. Linville" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:10:47 -0400

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:24:33AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:05 AM, John W. Linville <[email-masked]>
> > the reverts.  But if you think it is helpful:
> >        http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=20567&action=view
> 
> I tried applying the above patch against the latest linux git
> (18439c39e826191c0ef08c3a3271ce7ece46a860), but got a lot of rejects.
> Is this supposed to be?
> 
> 
> patch -p1 </tar/v2.6/revert-remove-ssid-knowledge-from-driver-series.patch
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> drivers/net/wireless/adm8211.h.rej
> 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c.rej
> 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c.rej
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.h.rej
> 3 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c.rej
> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h.rej
> 3 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c.rej
> 1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/net/mac80211.h.rej

Works for me...I even re-downloaded the patch from bugzilla.

/home/linville/git/linux-2.6
[linville-t400.local]:> git show
commit 18439c39e826191c0ef08c3a3271ce7ece46a860
Merge: 9e8912e... b35f8ca...
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds-de/[email-masked]>
Date:   Tue Mar 17 08:59:33 2009 -0700

    Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm
    
    * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm:
      dm crypt: wait for endio to complete before destruction
      dm crypt: fix kcryptd_async_done parameter
      dm io: respect BIO_MAX_PAGES limit
      dm table: rework reference counting fix
      dm ioctl: validate name length when renaming

/home/linville/git/linux-2.6
[linville-t400.local]:> patch -p1 < revert-remove-ssid-knowledge-from-driver-series.patch 
patching file drivers/net/wireless/adm8211.c
patching file drivers/net/wireless/adm8211.h
patching file drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
patching file drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
patching file drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-3945.h
patching file drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
patching file drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h
patching file drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c
patching file drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
patching file include/net/mac80211.h
patching file net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h
patching file net/mac80211/main.c
patching file net/mac80211/mlme.c
patching file net/mac80211/wext.c

Perhaps you have a dirty tree?

	git checkout -f

Does that help?

John
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