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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>2009-11-25 17:23:26 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-12-18 13:43:18 -0800
commit0027ce4116e62c943f61f8db8cd92e0d538257a4 (patch)
tree74dafb14f76823ad8a6c35b1114de4a55d81ae93 /drivers
parent264eaee38a94afb926d57e5c6df52013092d27bf (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/eeprom.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/eeprom.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/eeprom.c
index c56b494d417a..fb32785709d8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/eeprom.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/eeprom.c
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ ath5k_eeprom_init_header(struct ath5k_hw *ah)
struct ath5k_eeprom_info *ee = &ah->ah_capabilities.cap_eeprom;
int ret;
u16 val;
+ u32 cksum, offset;
/*
* Read values from EEPROM and store them in the capability structure
@@ -111,7 +112,6 @@ ath5k_eeprom_init_header(struct ath5k_hw *ah)
if (ah->ah_ee_version < AR5K_EEPROM_VERSION_3_0)
return 0;
-#ifdef notyet
/*
* Validate the checksum of the EEPROM date. There are some
* devices with invalid EEPROMs.
@@ -124,7 +124,6 @@ ath5k_eeprom_init_header(struct ath5k_hw *ah)
ATH5K_ERR(ah->ah_sc, "Invalid EEPROM checksum 0x%04x\n", cksum);
return -EIO;
}
-#endif
AR5K_EEPROM_READ_HDR(AR5K_EEPROM_ANT_GAIN(ah->ah_ee_version),
ee_ant_gain);