Erik Mouw wrote: > On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:36:36AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> Erik Mouw wrote: >>> Thanks for the information, pulled wireless-2.6 and recompiling kernel. >>> If this really fixes the problem, can we try to get it merged before >>> 2.6.18 closes? I don't know if vanilla 2.6.18-rc6 locks up on other >>> hardware as well, but if it does it would be a major regression against >>> 2.6.17. >> I'm trying. At the moment, I'm testing a patch against 2.6.18-rc6. Once it >> works here, I'll be >> putting it out for testing. > > I suppose that's the patch in "[PATCH] fix for system lockups in > 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx"?
Yes. > > FWIW: 2.6.18-rc6+wireless-2.6 runs well, my laptop didn't lock up over > the weekend. It seems to hurt some hardware much worse than others. My BCM4306 Rev 2 could not run without failure longer than ~6 hours, and sometimes as short as 10 minutes, before the patch. I've now completed the equivalent of 3 weeks without a failure (I'm running the preemptible periodic work every second instead of every minute). Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
