Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:39:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:22:25 -0500 Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > With the latest -mm, I'm now getting this:
> > 
> > Mar 21 15:06:52 cinder kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless
> > 2200BG Network Connection
> > Mar 21 15:06:52 cinder kernel: firmware_loading_store: unexpected
> > value (0)
> > Mar 21 15:06:52 cinder kernel: ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw
> > request_firmware failed:
> > Reason -2
> > Mar 21 15:06:52 cinder kernel: ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
> > Mar 21 15:06:52 cinder kernel: ipw2200: failed to register network
> > device
> 
> The firmware loading bug is caused by
> driver-core-handles-kobject_uevent-failure-while-device_add.patch
> 
> I've uploaded a revert patch to
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/hot-fixes/

For the record, with the following patches:

# hotfixes
mm-debug-check-for-the-fault-vs-invalidate-race.patch
mm-fix-fault-vs-invalidate-race-for-linear-mappings-fix-2.patch
mm-fix-fault-vs-invalidate-race-for-linear-mappings-fix.patch
revert-driver-core-handles-kobject_uevent-failure-while-device_add.patch
tty-in-tiocsctty-when-we-steal-a-tty-hang-it-up-fix.patch

...I just had a boot where firmware loading failed again. rmmod+insmod
fixed it.

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