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Linux 3.3 rc4

“So it’s almost getting to be a habit: yet another -rc release
that is delayed by a couple of days. However, this time I actually
have an excuse. Well, an excuse other than my usual “Sue me, I’m
disorganized and forgot”.

This time the reason for the delay is that we spent several days
chasing down a nasty floating point state corruption that happens
on 32-bit x86 – but only if you have a modern CPU (why are you
using 32-bit kernels?) that supports the AES-NI instructions. And
then you have to enable support for them *and* use a wireless
driver that uses it. The most likely reason for that is using the
mac80211 infrastructure with WPA with AES encryption (ie usually
WPA2)

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