Re: 2.6.37-rc7: no more shutdown on DELL E6400

[Eric Valette]

On 24/12/2010 00:56, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> Hi,

> I've got an E6400 myself and the only time I could get
> it to hang was when trying to use brcm80211 driver from
> staging. The problem appears when I rmmod/modprobe the
> driver after it looses connection to my wifi router.
>
> Since the driver is still in staging and buggy as hell
> I didn't bother notifying anyone. But it's true that
> shutdown truly hangs.
>
> Are you using brcm80211 driver too ?

No. Mine has an Intel WiFi chipset. With DELL the same reference can be 
used for multiple different hardware instantiation (I have a nvidia vido 
chipset some seems now to have an intel one).

PS: For me the hang appeared with 2.6.37-rc7. I run linux on it for more 
than a year changing stable kernel as soon as they appear and usually 
trying future kernel around rc6 stage.

2.6.36.2 works perfectly. I did not change my config except maybe if the 
make oldconfig was proposing something obvious (e.g new generic MII 
support).

--eric
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