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Re: pull request: wireless 2011-12-15

From: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-12-25 23:37:05
Also in: linux-wireless, lkml

W dniu 16 grudnia 2011 07:40 użytkownik Rafał Miłecki
[off-list ref] napisał:
W dniu 15 grudnia 2011 22:38 użytkownik John W. Linville
[off-list ref] napisał:
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:04:29PM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
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2011/12/15 John W. Linville [off-list ref]:
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commit 42a3b63bb2ca4996a3d1210a004eae2333f1119e

Dave,

Here are a few more fixes intended for the 3.2 release.  They are
all small and narrowly focused.
John, I've made a mistake and didn't use [PATCH 3.2] header to make it
clean my patch is fix. Could you take a look at
[PATCH] bcma: support for suspend and resume
please?

It's not one-liner, but fixes lock ups, which I believe - we really
want to avoid.
It's late in the release cycle, and Dave specifically asked me to slow down.

Are these suspend/resume lockups a regression?  Or have they always
been there?  Do they happen to everyone?
The bug is present since first days of bcma. That's why I even decided
to add stable to CC.

Personally I've tested that only on 1 machine (I don't have more
suspendable machines with mini PCIe slot). However all Macbook 8.1/8.2
users have to remove b43 & bcma before suspending [0], they complain
about that since ever.

Arend: I know you're also complaining for suspend in bcma. Can you
comment on this?

[0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1695746
User nephyrin on #bcm-users has confirmed this patch fixes
suspend&resume for him. Without this patch he got deadlock without
seeing any kernel panic logs - quite an ugly case.

I still think this patch may be worth taking as fix and backporting too.

-- 
Rafał
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