Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc5 - eeepc-laptop/rt2860 panic fix patches

Re: Linux 2.6.32-rc5 - eeepc-laptop/rt2860 panic fix patches

[Darren Salt]

I demand that Linus Torvalds may or may not hae written...

> Darren Salt (2):
>      eeepc-laptop: Prevent a panic when disabling RT2860 wireless when
>        associated

This patch (commit b56ab33d68638e6aafdbfc694025e8354a628f49) causes problems
with at least some alternative hardware, and should be reverted. I found that
if I substitute an Intel 3945 for the RT2860 in my 901 then, when eeepc-wlan
is toggled, we get rfkill set → eeepc-laptop → iwl3945 → rfkill remove (and
one process stuck in state D), and if I flip the flag which causes this, that
works fine but rt2860sta will happily cause a panic again.

Both I and Corentin Chary have unsuccessfully tried to get this patch
dropped.

>      Staging: rt2860sta: prevent a panic when disabling when associated

It has been superseded by this patch (commit
0af49167b1e5ba154e90d2c454bf4624ee47df80).

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