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

[Kyle McMartin]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:30:27AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:20:03AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> IIRC, it will take some porting for 2.6.27.  Is there an F-10-2_6_27
> fork somewhere?
> 

I started this last night, so I could submit it to stable...

The F10 2.6.27 branch is private-fedora-10-2_6_27.

cheers, Kyle