Re: iwlagn interrupt problem

From: Alexander E. Patrakov
Date: Thu Dec 11 2008 - 08:49:14 EST


2008/12/10 reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>:
> The messages you refer to are printed because a user space app
> (wpa_supplicant or network manager) brings the wireless interface down
> and up. Interrupts are disabled when interface is brought down and
> reenabled when interface is brought up.

OK.

> The unresponsiveness is due to a bug that was fixed recently. The
> patches have been merged into wireless-testing repo and will be included
> in 2.6.29. If you want to try
> the individual patches, please try:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122824886623698&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122849275528102&w=2

These individual patches don't apply to 2.6.27.6, so I installed
today's compat-wireless-2.6, and it seems to work. Thanks!

OTOH, are these patches a material for backporting into -stable?

--
Alexander E. Patrakov
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