Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-10-06 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:57:32AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:52:19PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:29:30 +0200 Jarek Poplawski wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:25:32AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote: ... Mozilla Firefox is breaking all

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-10-06 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:57:32AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote: On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:52:19PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: ... see http://mbligh.org/linuxdocs/Email/Clients/Thunderbird ... dangerous feature of Thunderbird - you never could be sure how a message will look because it is

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-10-05 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:29:30 +0200 Jarek Poplawski wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:25:32AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote: ... Attachments are discouraged, but some corporate mail systems provide no other way to send patches. I thought they didn't read this but now I understand for

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-10-05 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:52:19PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 10:29:30 +0200 Jarek Poplawski wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:25:32AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote: ... Attachments are discouraged, but some corporate mail systems provide no other way to send

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-09-14 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On 12-09-2006 00:04, Jeff Garzik wrote: John W. Linville wrote: ... Not too explicitly, but I think Andrew mentions it in The Perfect Patch: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt While you are looking, you might review Jeff's version of the same idea:

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-09-14 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:25:32AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote: ... Attachments are discouraged, but some corporate mail systems provide no other way to send patches. I thought they didn't read this but now I understand for whom Mozilla Firefox is breaking all those lines with no mercy!

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-09-11 Thread John W. Linville
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 11:04:59AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: John W. Linville wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:47:54PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: PLease send this upstream for inclusion in 2.6.18, if possible. This patch will not work for wireless-2.6. That patch will be sent to you

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-09-11 Thread Larry Finger
John W. Linville wrote: On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 11:04:59AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: John W. Linville wrote: OK, I see now. The patch won't apply to the upstream branch at all due to the open-coded locking patch applied previously. The problem now is that if I send this up for 2.6.18 then

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-09-11 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:59:01PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: John W. Linville wrote: Also, if you could just use --- instead of a long line of ==, I think I would have to do less manual processing...thanks! Sorry about the === rather than ---. Is that documented somewhere? Not too

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-09-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
John W. Linville wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:59:01PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: John W. Linville wrote: Also, if you could just use --- instead of a long line of ==, I think I would have to do less manual processing...thanks! Sorry about the === rather than ---. Is that documented

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-09-09 Thread John W. Linville
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:47:54PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: PLease send this upstream for inclusion in 2.6.18, if possible. This patch will not work for wireless-2.6. That patch will be sent to you soon. Are you saying this will break the upstream branch of wireless-2.6? I'm not too

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-09-09 Thread Larry Finger
John W. Linville wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 08:47:54PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: PLease send this upstream for inclusion in 2.6.18, if possible. This patch will not work for wireless-2.6. That patch will be sent to you soon. Are you saying this will break the upstream branch of

Re: [PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-09-09 Thread Daniel Drake
John, Larry Finger wrote: I would like to get a listing of patches for bcm43xx-softmac that are queued but not yet applied, and the order in which they will be applied. I want to make sure nothing has fallen through the cracks, and that the patches will apply cleanly. I know you have

[PATCH] fix for system lockups in 2.6.18-rcX caused by bcm43xx

2006-09-08 Thread Larry Finger
John, PLease send this upstream for inclusion in 2.6.18, if possible. This patch will not work for wireless-2.6. That patch will be sent to you soon. Larry = This patch fixes a bug in the bcm43xx driver in 2.6.18-rcX that hangs the machine due to