p54usb broken by commit b19fa1f

From: Larry Finger
Date: Fri Aug 01 2008 - 23:06:58 EST


In testing 2.6.27-rc1, I found that p54usb caused my machine to freeze. A few
times, I was able to use the KDE system status applet to see that the system was
using essentially 100% of the CPU's. One other time, the system responded a little - enough for me to see tha wpa_supplicant was consuming 100% of the my AMD Turion 64 X2 running an x86_64 kernel. From bisection, the problem is due to

commit b19fa1fa91845234961c64dbd564671aa7c0fd27
Author: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jul 8 23:14:24 2008 -0700

net: Delete NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE kconfig option.

Multiple TX queue support is a core networking feature.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Obviously, something in the driver cannot handle multiqueues, but I
have not found anything, and I have not been able to get any logged events that
show what is going wrong.

Thanks,

Larry

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