linux-kernel - Re: Oops in mac80211 with 2.6.26-rc3 triggered playing a video

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Date:	Thu, 29 May 2008 10:38:01 -0700
From:	Justin Madru <jdm64@...ab.com>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
CC:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Oops in mac80211 with 2.6.26-rc3 triggered playing a video

I've been testing .26-rc4 and I haven't had it lock up - yet. It seems 
like rc4 is more stable than rc3. It seems to fix some other problems I 
was having.

Vegard Nossum wrote:
> Btw, I don't really see what access point association has to do with
> playing a movie, so I'm inclined to believe the patch actually won't
> fix your problem. But that's what the oops was. Perhaps you were
> unlucky and hit a combination of two different issues... We'll see.
>   
Yeah, I thought the same thing. Why would a network related oops be 
triggered by video playback. It was probably just a coincidence - 
hitting two bugs at once! And I think the video playback lockup was due 
to something that got fixed in rc4 that Linus mentioned.

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> But most of the changes, as usual, are in drivers, at 60%, with some DRI 
> changes leading the way (fixing a number of other regressions, mainly by 
> reverting the under-cooked vblank update).

Justin Madru



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