Re: Reverting 5d423 fixes loading of ath9k on Acer Extensa 7630EZ

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >
> > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Can you please consider reviewing this issue and help determine if
> >> > this indeed needs to be reverted for 2.6.32 and the next 2.6.31.y.
> >> >
> >> > I am curious if other devices would work by reverting this as well.
> >> > [ ... ] For details please feel free to check:
> >> >
> >> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14402
> >>
> >> That same commit was the cause for
> >>
> >> ?? ?? ?? http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13940
> >>
> >> and we just increased the rounding to make it go away (see commit
> >> 15b812f1). But that was a hack.
> >>
> >> And if that didn't help the ath9k case, then we should just revert
> >> entirely.
> >
> > Agreed - below is the combo 15b812f1 + 5d423ccd revert. (Would be nice
> > to get the boot log of the latest post-15b812f1 kernel that Yinghai
> > asked for before we revert, in the hope of better understanding the
> > problem.)
> 
> Bernhard has confirmed the new patch fixes this issue.

Good - so latest kernels should be fine (on Bernhard's box) and no 
change is needed, right?

	Ingo