linux-kernel - Re: [Regression] - 2.6.32-rc5 hangs using rfkill on an eeePC

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Message-ID: <50B0C1487C%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:28:27 +0100
From:	Darren Salt <linux@...mustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
To:	Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@...il.com>
Cc:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rjw@...k.pl, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Regression] - 2.6.32-rc5 hangs using rfkill on an eeePC

I demand that Fabio Comolli may or may not have written...

[snip]
> I already answered my own post in the thread: the culprit is:

> eeepc-laptop: Prevent a panic when disabling RT2860 wireless when
> associated

> Funnily enough, my eeePC has an Atheros card.

We (myself and Corentin Chary) tried to stop that patch once I'd noticed the
problem – I updated the patch, tested (all was fine with the rt2860 card),
upgraded from -rc3 to -rc4, installed an Intel 3945 card, tested, sent the
patch, restored the rt2860 card to its proper place, happened to toggle
wireless, got a panic due to having failed to remember to actually apply the
patch to -rc4... at this point, I rechecked with the Intel card (this time
with a patched kernel), saw a failure (stuck process – hmm, should rfkill be
re-entrant?), reported it, went digging into rt2860sta and produced, tested
and sent the replacement patch, then tried to stop the broken patch from
going upstream.

A reversion patch has been sent by Corentin (shortly after you reported this,
though the commit message says that he's reacted to its being in rc5) and,
earlier today, I directly requested that it be reverted; so hopefully, one
way or another, -rc6 will be fine for Atheros users and anybody else affected
by this, much as -rc5 is for rt2860 users.

Oh well. So much for Linus's "no new regressions". ;-}

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