linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2009-04-27-15-45 uploaded

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Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:38:05 -0400
From:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>
To:	reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
Cc:	"Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mm-commits@...r.kernel.org" <mm-commits@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mmotm 2009-04-27-15-45 uploaded - iwl3945 oops

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:39:44PM -0700, reinette chatre wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 10:14 -0700, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:46:07 PDT, akpm@...ux-foundation.org said:
> > > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2009-04-27-15-45 has been uploaded to
> > > 
> > >    http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> > 
> > Saw this while booting at home, out of range of any access points I was
> > configured to associate with (there *are* 4 APs owned by neighbors that I can
> > see via kismet, but wpa_supplicant isn't configured to use them).  Didn't
> > happen this morning at my office, when there's APs in range.
> > 
> > This didn't happen in mmotm-0424, so it's something new in the last few days.
> 
> A recent patch that is related is ...
> 
> commit 4583f7455c6b668a4e9cab154b5a7b6c583b288a
> Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
> Date:   Thu Apr 23 10:45:04 2009 +0200
> 
>     iwlwifi: notify on scan completion even when shutting down
> 
>     Under certain circumstances iwlwifi can get stuck and will no
>     longer accept scan requests, because the core code (cfg80211)
>     thinks that it's still processing one. This fixes one of the
>     points where it can happen, but I've still seen it (although
>     only with my radio-off-when-idle patch).
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
>     Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
>     Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>
> 
> 
> Could you please revert this and test again?

I doubt if that will help -- I just put it into wireless-2.6 and
wireless-testing today.

> If this does not help, could you please bisect?

Better bet...unless you meant "apply" instead of "revert"...

John
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