Subject: Re: orinoco driver causes *lots* of lockdep spew
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, davej@redhat.com,
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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 04:11:03 +0200
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On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:53 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 11:54:41PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Arjan, did you convince yourself whether or not this patch actually
> resolves the problem at hand?  Applying it makes sense to me either
> way, but it would be nice to believe it fixed a known issue. :-)

it'll fix a whole bunch of issues for sure, and this one as well afaics
(now with coffee ;-).. it probably won't fix all of them, but that's ok,
with this in place we actually CAN fix any others that pop up, right now
without this patch we probably can't.

> John
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