From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758619AbYE2RiS (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 13:38:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755750AbYE2RiG (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 13:38:06 -0400 Received: from mail9.dslextreme.com ([66.51.199.94]:41173 "HELO mail9.dslextreme.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752128AbYE2RiE (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2008 13:38:04 -0400 Message-ID: <483EE9F9.7020808@gawab.com> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:38:01 -0700 From: Justin Madru User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080522) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vegard Nossum CC: lkml Subject: Re: Oops in mac80211 with 2.6.26-rc3 triggered playing a video References: <483A3F91.6020403@gawab.com> <19f34abd0805260049j621c882r970444b65e384355@mail.gmail.com> <483AECEF.9030509@gawab.com> <19f34abd0805261052v38345716i3e6837ebe5d4a710@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <19f34abd0805261052v38345716i3e6837ebe5d4a710@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I've been testing .26-rc4 and I haven't had it lock up - yet. It seems like rc4 is more stable than rc3. It seems to fix some other problems I was having. Vegard Nossum wrote: > Btw, I don't really see what access point association has to do with > playing a movie, so I'm inclined to believe the patch actually won't > fix your problem. But that's what the oops was. Perhaps you were > unlucky and hit a combination of two different issues... We'll see. > Yeah, I thought the same thing. Why would a network related oops be triggered by video playback. It was probably just a coincidence - hitting two bugs at once! And I think the video playback lockup was due to something that got fixed in rc4 that Linus mentioned. Linus Torvalds wrote: > But most of the changes, as usual, are in drivers, at 60%, with some DRI > changes leading the way (fixing a number of other regressions, mainly by > reverting the under-cooked vblank update). Justin Madru