[PATCH] staging: brcm80211: bugfix for softmac crash on multi cpu configurations

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:51:56AM +0100, Roland Vossen wrote:
> Solved a locking issue that resulted in driver crashes with the 43224 and 43225
> chips. The problem has been reported on several fora. Root cause was two fold:
> hardware was being manipulated by two unsynchronized threads, and a scan
> operation could interfere with an ongoing dynamic calibration process. Fix was
> to invoke a lock on wl_ops_config() operation and to set internal flags when a
> scan operation is started and stopped.
> 
> Please add this to the staging-linus branch.

Should this also go to the .37 stable kernel tree?

thanks,

greg k-h