Re: 2.6.19-rc1 regression: airo suspend fails

[Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>]

Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:31:16PM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote:
>> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
>> 
>> > so please give it a good testing, and let's see if there are any 
>> > regressions.
>> 
>> it breaks suspend when the airo module is loaded:
>> 
>> kernel: Stopping tasks: =================================================================================
>> kernel:  stopping tasks timed out after 20 seconds (1 tasks remaining):
>> kernel:   eth1
>> kernel: Restarting tasks...<6> Strange, eth1 not stopped
>> 
>> if i remove the airo module suspend works normally (this is on a
>> thinkpad t40).
>
> Thanks for your report.
>
> Let's try to figure out what broke it.
>
> As a first step, please replace drivers/net/wireless/airo.c with the 
> version in 2.6.18 and check whether this fixes the issue (you can ignore 
> the deprecated warning during compilation).

i replaced airo.c with the 2.6.18 version. the good news is i can
suspend to memory with it. the bad news is dhcp never got an ip
address (so i don't think the 2.6.18 driver really works with the
2.6.19-rc1 infrastructure). any patches i could try? thanks.

--alex--

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