On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:01:26PM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:

On Thursday 31 July 2008, Peter Chubb wrote:

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In kernel version 2.6.26-rc9 my wireless LAN card worked; but in the
released 2.6.26, my RaLink rt2500 card wouldn't associate.

Git-bisect led me to this patch:

	61486e0f68d1f8966c09b734566a187d42d65c54
	rt2x00: Remove ieee80211_tx_control argument from write_tx_desc()

I believe that there is a problem with that patch --- it
(inadvertantly) removes an extra line of code, that used to set the
DATABYTE_COUNT field.
 
This patch reinstates that line, and with it my card works again.
 
Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <redacted>
Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <redacted>

[stable@kernel.org added to CC]

The 2.6.27 version of the patch has already been pushed upstream,
this one is for 2.6.26-stable since this fixes a regression introduced after 2.6.25.

Are you sure?  Looking at 2.6.26, the code in that function looks like
it is properly setting the TXD_W0_DATABYTE_COUNT, field.

If it's really a problem, can you send stable@kernel.org a patch that
applies to 2.6.26.2?

thanks,

greg k-h