Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1424252AbWKPQKP (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:10:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1424245AbWKPQKP (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:10:15 -0500 Received: from mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.115]:63935 "EHLO mtiwmhc11.worldnet.att.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1424250AbWKPQKN (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:10:13 -0500 Message-ID: <455C8D39.3080001@lwfinger.net> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:09:29 -0600 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Wright CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , "Theodore Ts'o" , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , Michael Krufky , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mb@bu3sch.de, greg@kroah.com, "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [patch 07/30] bcm43xx: Drain TX status before starting IRQs References: <20061116024332.124753000@sous-sol.org> <20061116024511.458086000@sous-sol.org> In-Reply-To: <20061116024511.458086000@sous-sol.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1100 Lines: 31 Chris Wright wrote: > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > ------------------ > > From: Michael Buesch > > Drain the Microcode TX-status-FIFO before we enable IRQs. > This is required, because the FIFO may still have entries left > from a previous run. Those would immediately fire after enabling > IRQs and would lead to an oops in the DMA TXstatus handling code. > > Cc: "John W. Linville" > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright > --- Chris, We have a report of a regression between 2.6.19-rc3 and -rc5. As this patch seems to be the only one that could cause the problem, please pull it from -stable while we sort out the difficulty. Thanks, Larry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/