Re: regression IWl3945 - doesn't work with recent 2.6.30-rcX

[Zdenek Kabelac]

2009/4/22 John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:33:03PM +0200, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm checking whether -rcX kernel could be usable on my
>> T61/4GB/C2D/x86_64 - but wireless seems to be still out of
>> functionality:
>> I'm getting lots of weird trace-back messages and it looks like
>> iwl3945 is not working at all.
>> (attached messages from fresh build of -rc3 - but it never worked even in -rc1)
>
> Looks like this one did _not_ make -rc3:
>
> commit df833b1d73680f9f9dc72cbc3215edbbc6ab740d
> Author: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Apr 21 10:55:48 2009 -0700
>
>    iwlwifi: DMA fixes
>
>    A few issues wrt DMA were uncovered when using the driver with swiotlb.
> ...
>
> It is in wireless-2.6 and should be in net-2.6 -- please try one of those kernels.


I can confirm that current upstream linux commit
9f5a691253924fd033a58c6b1fed57bb0a4eccf4 works again with iwlwifi.
and it already contains the patch you suggested to check.

Zdenek
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