Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f226.google.com ([209.85.219.226]:44964 "EHLO mail-ew0-f226.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754127AbZG1Nic convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:38:32 -0400 Received: by ewy26 with SMTP id 26so20721ewy.37 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:38:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <200907272035.41193.chris2553@googlemail.com> <1248725279.7440.8.camel@mj> <200907272122.11290.chris2553@googlemail.com> <1248726744.32365.4.camel@johannes.local> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:38:31 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc2: Possible regression in rt61pci driver From: Luis Correia To: Chris Clayton Cc: Johannes Berg , Pavel Roskin , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Ivo van Doorn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Chris On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 14:34, Chris Clayton wrote: > 2009/7/28 Luis Correia : >> Hi Chris > >> Can you do a very dumb test for me? >> >> Boot your laptop by adding 'irqpoll' to the kernel command line >> options and see if the problem still occours. >> > > Not so dumb a request, actually. ?Running -rc4 with the irqpoll > command line option, the laptop has just survived 30 minutes without a > freeze. It can't survive more than 5 minutes without that option. > > Chris Well, if the laptop hangs on working without any problems, this may proove to be some strange kind of hardware incompatibility. The irqpoll option solves some of the interrupt related problems, by polling them instead of 'grabbing' them (at least that is what I think it is happening, correct me if I'm wrong:)) Luis Correia rt2x00 project admin