linux-kernel - Re: [REVERT] be6b38bcb175613f239e0b302607db346472c6b6. v2.6.34-rc3-406 oops with 4965AGN wireless

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Date:	Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:47:13 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>,
	Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@...el.com>,
	Shanyu Zhao <shanyu.zhao@...el.com>,
	Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>, stable@...nel.org,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	johannes@...solutions.net
Subject: Re: [REVERT] be6b38bcb175613f239e0b302607db346472c6b6.
 v2.6.34-rc3-406 oops with 4965AGN wireless

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 10:19 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Jeff Chua wrote:
> > 
> > I'm having problem with the latest git pull 2 days ago with the 4965AGN
> > wireless.
> > 
> > Starting the wireless with WPA2 resulted in system hard freeze. Reverting the
> > commit below solves the problem.
> 
> I don't mind reverting patches, but I hate doing it blind and without 
> _any_ chance for the guilty party to try to fix it first.
> 
> Can you post the oops that your subject implies happened? Maybe the driver 
> authors can find the proper fix without a revert?
> 
> I'll revert if if I hear no updates in a couple of days - please remind 
> me.

Does remind me of the iwlagn trouble I had, see
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15667 and
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=25881 for a patch that
seems to have cured my laptop.

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