Return-path: Received: from anchor-post-2.mail.demon.net ([195.173.77.133]:59641 "EHLO anchor-post-2.mail.demon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751070AbZJPV5k convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:57:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:28:27 +0100 From: Darren Salt To: Fabio Comolli Cc: Frans Pop , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Regression] - 2.6.32-rc5 hangs using rfkill on an eeePC Message-ID: <50B0C1487C%linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <200910162246.45678.elendil@planet.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: I demand that Fabio Comolli may or may not have written... [snip] > I already answered my own post in the thread: the culprit is: > eeepc-laptop: Prevent a panic when disabling RT2860 wireless when > associated > Funnily enough, my eeePC has an Atheros card. We (myself and Corentin Chary) tried to stop that patch once I'd noticed the problem – I updated the patch, tested (all was fine with the rt2860 card), upgraded from -rc3 to -rc4, installed an Intel 3945 card, tested, sent the patch, restored the rt2860 card to its proper place, happened to toggle wireless, got a panic due to having failed to remember to actually apply the patch to -rc4... at this point, I rechecked with the Intel card (this time with a patched kernel), saw a failure (stuck process – hmm, should rfkill be re-entrant?), reported it, went digging into rt2860sta and produced, tested and sent the replacement patch, then tried to stop the broken patch from going upstream. A reversion patch has been sent by Corentin (shortly after you reported this, though the commit message says that he's reacted to its being in rc5) and, earlier today, I directly requested that it be reverted; so hopefully, one way or another, -rc6 will be fine for Atheros users and anybody else affected by this, much as -rc5 is for rt2860 users. Oh well. So much for Linus's "no new regressions". ;-} -- | Darren Salt | linux at youmustbejoking | nr. Ashington, | Doon | using Debian GNU/Linux | or ds ,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Travel less. Share transport more. PRODUCE LESS CARBON DIOXIDE. Look! Over there!... Ha. Made you look.