Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:46431 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752354AbZD1UqF (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:46:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:38:05 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: reinette chatre Cc: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" , Andrew Morton , "Zhu, Yi" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "mm-commits@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: mmotm 2009-04-27-15-45 uploaded - iwl3945 oops Message-ID: <20090428203805.GB3321@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20090428_224612_680067_831D88D6) References: <200904272305.n3RN51mu031395@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <25818.1240938876@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1240951184.1207.11.camel@rc-desk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1240951184.1207.11.camel@rc-desk> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:39:44PM -0700, reinette chatre wrote: > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 10:14 -0700, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:46:07 PDT, akpm@linux-foundation.org said: > > > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2009-04-27-15-45 has been uploaded to > > > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ > > > > Saw this while booting at home, out of range of any access points I was > > configured to associate with (there *are* 4 APs owned by neighbors that I can > > see via kismet, but wpa_supplicant isn't configured to use them). Didn't > > happen this morning at my office, when there's APs in range. > > > > This didn't happen in mmotm-0424, so it's something new in the last few days. > > A recent patch that is related is ... > > commit 4583f7455c6b668a4e9cab154b5a7b6c583b288a > Author: Johannes Berg > Date: Thu Apr 23 10:45:04 2009 +0200 > > iwlwifi: notify on scan completion even when shutting down > > Under certain circumstances iwlwifi can get stuck and will no > longer accept scan requests, because the core code (cfg80211) > thinks that it's still processing one. This fixes one of the > points where it can happen, but I've still seen it (although > only with my radio-off-when-idle patch). > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg > Acked-by: Reinette Chatre > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville > > > Could you please revert this and test again? I doubt if that will help -- I just put it into wireless-2.6 and wireless-testing today. > If this does not help, could you please bisect? Better bet...unless you meant "apply" instead of "revert"... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.