Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 -> rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

From: Joseph Fannin
Date: Sat Nov 18 2006 - 06:25:47 EST


On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:01:00AM -0800, Ray Lee wrote:

> I've come back to my laptop being mostly dead after hours of it being off on
> its own (twice now). Mostly dead meaning the keyboard is nearly
> non-responsive, but the mouse works great (I'm in X, of course). I say 'nearly
> dead' as sysrq-t,b works, so I'm sorta stumped there. (x-session seems to use
> netlink, so perhaps that's the connection? ctrl-alt-f[1-7] don't do anything,
> however.)

This sounds like what my laptop was doing in -rc5, though mine
didn't take hours to start acting up.

I *think* it was the MSI troubles, causing interrupts to get
lost forever. Anyway, it went away in -rc6.

I don't have the broadcom hardware.

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