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

[Alessandro Suardi]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Eric Valette <eric.valette@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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).

Just as a data point, my Dell E6400 still shuts down fine in both 2.6.37-rc7
 and -rc7-git2. This one has integrated Intel video (i915) and I use the
 out-of-tree broadcom-sta driver for the wireless interface. If needed, I can
 post my .config in the bugzilla entry (but won't, unless asked - in order to
 avoid possible bug noise).

--alessandro

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