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

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>>
>> Â Â Â 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.

  Luis
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