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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:50:21 -0800 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com> To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, stable@...nel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, Yannick Roehlly <yannick.roehlly@...e.fr>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@...el.com>, Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>, berndl81@....at, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com> Subject: Re: Reverting 5d423 fixes loading of ath9k on Acer Extensa 7630EZ On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...il.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...il.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote: >>> >>> * Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...il.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: >>>> > >>>> >> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >>>> >> > >>>> >> > Can you please consider reviewing this issue and help determine if >>>> >> > this indeed needs to be reverted for 2.6.32 and the next 2.6.31.y. >>>> >> > >>>> >> > I am curious if other devices would work by reverting this as well. >>>> >> > [ ... ] For details please feel free to check: >>>> >> > >>>> >> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14402 >>>> >> >>>> >> That same commit was the cause for >>>> >> >>>> >> ?? ?? ?? http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13940 >>>> >> >>>> >> and we just increased the rounding to make it go away (see commit >>>> >> 15b812f1). But that was a hack. >>>> >> >>>> >> And if that didn't help the ath9k case, then we should just revert >>>> >> entirely. >>>> > >>>> > Agreed - below is the combo 15b812f1 + 5d423ccd revert. (Would be nice >>>> > to get the boot log of the latest post-15b812f1 kernel that Yinghai >>>> > asked for before we revert, in the hope of better understanding the >>>> > problem.) >>>> >>>> Bernhard has confirmed the new patch fixes this issue. >>> >>> Good - so latest kernels should be fine (on Bernhard's box) and no >>> change is needed, right? >> >> Yea, but it does mean we need a fix propagated down to older kernels. > > Greg, please consider applying 15b812f1d0 to stable 2.6.31 as it fixes > an issue introduced on 2.6.31 and only fixed now for 2.6.32. This > should fix an issue when loading either sky2 or ath9k on some specific > platforms. > > The details for the ath9k debugging are available on this bug: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14402 Just noticed this did make it to 2.6.31.6, sorry for the noise and thanks. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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