Re: bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 -> rc5, rtnl_lock trouble?

[Larry Finger]

Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 06:24 -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote:
>
> >     This sounds like what my laptop was doing in -rc5, though mine
> > didn't take hours to start acting up.
> >
> >     I *think* it was the MSI troubles, causing interrupts to get
> > lost forever.  Anyway, it went away in -rc6.
>
> Hah, that's a lot more plausible than bcm43xx's drain patch actually
> causing this. So maybe somehow interrupts for bcm43xx aren't routed
> properly or something...
>
> Ray, please check /proc/interrupts when this happens.
>
> I am convinced that the patch in question (drain tx status) is not
> causing this -- the patch should be a no-op in most cases anyway, and in
> those cases where it isn't a no-op it'll run only once at card init and
> remove some things from a hardware-internal FIFO.

I agree that drain tx status should not cause the problem.

Ray, does -rc6 solve your problem as it did for Joseph?

Larry
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