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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:02:20 +0800
From: "Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
To: "Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath5k : ath5k_config_interface deadlock fix
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On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave Young napsal(a):
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:03:37 +0300 Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Jiri Slaby wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dave Young napsal(a):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In the drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c, there's recursive locking
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> sc->lock
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Should be fixed already:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=bc05116ab33d30342e2b4b1bcc6d6e1184e9df97
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess that didn't make it to -stable?
>>>>
>>>> (cc stable!)
>>>
>>> Not to worry, the commit that introduced it was
>>> 9d139c810a2aa17365cc548d0cd2a189d8433c65, which as far as I can tell
>>> came in after 2.6.26.
>>
>> Strange, I get system stuck in 2.6.26 as well, so there might be other
>> bugs.
>
> Could you provide any logs regarding this, please?
>

I will generate some new logs tomorrow.

There's some info in:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/29/32

-- 
Regards
dave