linux-kernel - Re: Please consider reverting 7d930bc33653d5592dc386a76a38f39c2e962344

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Date:	Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:49:34 -0800
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, johannes@...solutions.net,
	linville@...driver.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Please consider reverting
	7d930bc33653d5592dc386a76a38f39c2e962344

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:37:00AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> (And no, as far as I can tell, it needs no suspend/resume cycle at all. I 
> don't know the code very well, but as far as I can tell it just needs a 
> wireless deauthentication, which easily happens if you're running 
> something like NetworkManager and your wireless network may be noisy or 
> weak).
> 

I think I also hit it once by disabling the wireless through network
manager (wanted to refresh DHCP server list in resolv.conf)... But that
operation is not as common as suspend/resume for me.

-- 
Dmitry
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