linux-kernel - Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 -> rc5, rtnl

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Date:	Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:24:39 -0500
From:	jhf@...umbus.rr.com (Joseph Fannin)
To:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
Cc:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	Bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, John Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 -> rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:01:00AM -0800, Ray Lee wrote:

> I've come back to my laptop being mostly dead after hours of it being off on
> its own (twice now). Mostly dead meaning the keyboard is nearly
> non-responsive, but the mouse works great (I'm in X, of course). I say 'nearly
> dead' as sysrq-t,b works, so I'm sorta stumped there. (x-session seems to use
> netlink, so perhaps that's the connection? ctrl-alt-f[1-7] don't do anything,
> however.)

    This sounds like what my laptop was doing in -rc5, though mine
didn't take hours to start acting up.

    I *think* it was the MSI troubles, causing interrupts to get
lost forever.  Anyway, it went away in -rc6.

    I don't have the broadcom hardware.

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Joseph Fannin
jfannin@...il.com || jhf@...umbus.rr.com


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