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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 23:42:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Golden <goldenstranger@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: firmware_loading_store: vmap() failed, broken firmware with kernles .27 - .30
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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> I realize that it's an important issue, but I don't have
> time to look
> for a solution right now.? I did my part by confirming
> the problem on an
> 2.6.28.10 kernel.? I don't see it on other kernels,
> but since it's a
> race condition, I cannot say definitely that the same
> condition cannot
> happen on another system running a newer kernel.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin


Interesting scenario we have here. I confirm the race condition in 2.6.27 and 2.6.30, it appears to be gone in 2.6.31 /Ubuntu 9.10/, it appears to be present in Ubuntu 10.04 /2.6.32/ beta and then it disappears again in 2.6.33 /don't know about .34rc/.

Here's a bug report back from February pertaining to 2.6.32:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15294