Re: mmotm 2009-04-27-15-45 uploaded - iwl3945 oops

[reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>]

On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 13:38 -0700, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:39:44PM -0700, reinette chatre wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 10:14 -0700, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:46:07 PDT, akpm@linux-foundation.org said:
> > > > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2009-04-27-15-45 has been uploaded to
> > > > 
> > > >    http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
> > > 
> > > Saw this while booting at home, out of range of any access points I was
> > > configured to associate with (there *are* 4 APs owned by neighbors that I can
> > > see via kismet, but wpa_supplicant isn't configured to use them).  Didn't
> > > happen this morning at my office, when there's APs in range.
> > > 
> > > This didn't happen in mmotm-0424, so it's something new in the last few days.
> > 
> > A recent patch that is related is ...
> > 
> > commit 4583f7455c6b668a4e9cab154b5a7b6c583b288a
> > Author: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> > Date:   Thu Apr 23 10:45:04 2009 +0200
> > 
> >     iwlwifi: notify on scan completion even when shutting down
> > 
> >     Under certain circumstances iwlwifi can get stuck and will no
> >     longer accept scan requests, because the core code (cfg80211)
> >     thinks that it's still processing one. This fixes one of the
> >     points where it can happen, but I've still seen it (although
> >     only with my radio-off-when-idle patch).
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> >     Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> > 
> > 
> > Could you please revert this and test again?
> 
> I doubt if that will help -- I just put it into wireless-2.6 and
> wireless-testing today.
> 
> > If this does not help, could you please bisect?
> 
> Better bet...unless you meant "apply" instead of "revert"...

I did mean revert ... without checking that this patch was in mm yet. Sorry.

Reinette