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Message-ID: <4896B89C.9060901@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:06:52 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
CC:	Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	johannes@...solutions.net, tomasw@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	ath5k-devel@...ema.h4ckr.net, linville@...driver.com,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath5k : ath5k_config_interface deadlock fix

Dave Young napsal(a):
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:03:37 +0300 Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>>>> Dave Young napsal(a):
>>>>>> In the drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c, there's recursive locking of
>>>>>> sc->lock
>>>>> Should be fixed already:
>>>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=bc05116ab33d30342e2b4b1bcc6d6e1184e9df97
>>>> I guess that didn't make it to -stable?
>>> (cc stable!)
>> Not to worry, the commit that introduced it was
>> 9d139c810a2aa17365cc548d0cd2a189d8433c65, which as far as I can tell
>> came in after 2.6.26.
> 
> Strange, I get system stuck in 2.6.26 as well, so there might be other bugs.

Could you provide any logs regarding this, please?
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