Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Nov 2009 08:15:58 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Reverting 5d423 fixes loading of ath9k on Acer Extensa 7630EZ |
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* Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > > > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> > > >> > Can you please consider reviewing this issue and help determine if > >> > this indeed needs to be reverted for 2.6.32 and the next 2.6.31.y. > >> > > >> > I am curious if other devices would work by reverting this as well. > >> > [ ... ] For details please feel free to check: > >> > > >> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14402 > >> > >> That same commit was the cause for > >> > >> ?? ?? ?? http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13940 > >> > >> and we just increased the rounding to make it go away (see commit > >> 15b812f1). But that was a hack. > >> > >> And if that didn't help the ath9k case, then we should just revert > >> entirely. > > > > Agreed - below is the combo 15b812f1 + 5d423ccd revert. (Would be nice > > to get the boot log of the latest post-15b812f1 kernel that Yinghai > > asked for before we revert, in the hope of better understanding the > > problem.) > > Bernhard has confirmed the new patch fixes this issue.
Good - so latest kernels should be fine (on Bernhard's box) and no change is needed, right?
Ingo
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