Re: mmotm 2009-04-27-15-45 uploaded - iwl3945 oops

From: reinette chatre
Date: Tue Apr 28 2009 - 16:49:23 EST


On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 13:38 -0700, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:39:44PM -0700, reinette chatre wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 10:14 -0700, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:46:07 PDT, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> > > > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2009-04-27-15-45 has been uploaded to
> > > >
> > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> > >
> > > Saw this while booting at home, out of range of any access points I was
> > > configured to associate with (there *are* 4 APs owned by neighbors that I can
> > > see via kismet, but wpa_supplicant isn't configured to use them). Didn't
> > > happen this morning at my office, when there's APs in range.
> > >
> > > This didn't happen in mmotm-0424, so it's something new in the last few days.
> >
> > A recent patch that is related is ...
> >
> > commit 4583f7455c6b668a4e9cab154b5a7b6c583b288a
> > Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu Apr 23 10:45:04 2009 +0200
> >
> > iwlwifi: notify on scan completion even when shutting down
> >
> > Under certain circumstances iwlwifi can get stuck and will no
> > longer accept scan requests, because the core code (cfg80211)
> > thinks that it's still processing one. This fixes one of the
> > points where it can happen, but I've still seen it (although
> > only with my radio-off-when-idle patch).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> > Could you please revert this and test again?
>
> I doubt if that will help -- I just put it into wireless-2.6 and
> wireless-testing today.
>
> > If this does not help, could you please bisect?
>
> Better bet...unless you meant "apply" instead of "revert"...

I did mean revert ... without checking that this patch was in mm yet. Sorry.

Reinette





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