Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:28:27 +0100 | From | Darren Salt <> | Subject | Re: [Regression] - 2.6.32-rc5 hangs using rfkill on an eeePC |
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I demand that Fabio Comolli may or may not have written...
[snip] > I already answered my own post in the thread: the culprit is:
> eeepc-laptop: Prevent a panic when disabling RT2860 wireless when > associated
> Funnily enough, my eeePC has an Atheros card.
We (myself and Corentin Chary) tried to stop that patch once I'd noticed the problem – I updated the patch, tested (all was fine with the rt2860 card), upgraded from -rc3 to -rc4, installed an Intel 3945 card, tested, sent the patch, restored the rt2860 card to its proper place, happened to toggle wireless, got a panic due to having failed to remember to actually apply the patch to -rc4... at this point, I rechecked with the Intel card (this time with a patched kernel), saw a failure (stuck process – hmm, should rfkill be re-entrant?), reported it, went digging into rt2860sta and produced, tested and sent the replacement patch, then tried to stop the broken patch from going upstream.
A reversion patch has been sent by Corentin (shortly after you reported this, though the commit message says that he's reacted to its being in rc5) and, earlier today, I directly requested that it be reverted; so hopefully, one way or another, -rc6 will be fine for Atheros users and anybody else affected by this, much as -rc5 is for rt2860 users.
Oh well. So much for Linus's "no new regressions". ;-}
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