Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 08:00:46 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>,
        Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>,
        "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: brcm80211: the system freezes if booted with laptop wifi switch
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On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 10:03:41AM +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:11:20 +0100, Francis Moreau
> <francis.moro@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm currently running 2.6.38-rc6, and if I boot with my WIFI switch
> >set to off position, the system freezes entirely when bringing up the
> >wlan0 interface.
> >
> >There's no trace so I don't really know how I can help to debug
> >this further.
> >
> >Thanks
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> A while ago I submitted a patch for this issue and it was marked as
> new functionality so only to be included in the staging-next branch.
> However, as the system freezes without this patch it might be a good
> idea to submit the patch for staging-linus branch as well to include
> it in linus tree. Do you agree? If so I will prepare a backported
> version of the patch and send it to you.

Sure, but I will wait and add it to the stable releases when it goes
into Linus's tree.  Sound ok?

thanks,

greg k-h
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