linux-kernel - RE: 3.3.0-rc1+ (Linus GIT) - iwlwifi losing connection regularly.

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:38:17 +0000
From:	"Grumbach, Emmanuel" <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>
To:	"Guy, Wey-Yi W" <wey-yi.w.guy@...el.com>,
	Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>
CC:	Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@...ux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: 3.3.0-rc1+ (Linus GIT) - iwlwifi losing connection regularly.

Hi Miles,

Thanks for the detailed bug description.

> 
> I find that with builds of Linus GIT over the last week or so I need
> to rmmod and insmod the iwlwifi driver about once every ten minutes.
> When the connection stops working, networkmanager still shows the
> connection as active, but no data is getting through (Web, pings,
> etc).
> I enabled full debug output and here is a sample of kern.log that
> stretches from a point in time when the connection was working through
> past when it failed.
> Please let me know if I can help debug this further.  I don't have
> time to do a bisection, unfortunately.
> 

Quite a few people reported an issue that I think can be solved by the patch attached.
Would you mind try and report ?
Thanks
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