Re: [REVERT] be6b38bcb175613f239e0b302607db346472c6b6.v2.6.34-rc3-406 oops with 4965AGN wireless

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Apr 08 2010 - 15:47:22 EST


On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 10:19 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Jeff Chua wrote:
> >
> > I'm having problem with the latest git pull 2 days ago with the 4965AGN
> > wireless.
> >
> > Starting the wireless with WPA2 resulted in system hard freeze. Reverting the
> > commit below solves the problem.
>
> I don't mind reverting patches, but I hate doing it blind and without
> _any_ chance for the guilty party to try to fix it first.
>
> Can you post the oops that your subject implies happened? Maybe the driver
> authors can find the proper fix without a revert?
>
> I'll revert if if I hear no updates in a couple of days - please remind
> me.

Does remind me of the iwlagn trouble I had, see
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15667 and
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=25881 for a patch that
seems to have cured my laptop.

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