On Monday 28 May 2007 16:09:46 Maximilian Engelhardt wrote: > On Monday 28 May 2007, Michael Buesch wrote: > > Can you give 2.6.16 a try? The diff is not that big and we might > > be able to find out what broke if you find out 2.6.16 works. > > You can also try later kernels like .17, .18, .19 to further > > reduce the patch. (You could also git-bisect, if you have the time). > > > I did some testing and compiled some kernels and here are the results: > > I was able to find out what causes the problems for me. I did build two > 2.6.21.3 kernels, and one does work fine and the other doesn't. > > This is a diff of the kernel configs I used: > > --- /usr/src/linux-2.6.21.3-oldconfig1/.config 2007-05-28 13:41:15.000000000 > +0200 > +++ /usr/src/linux-2.6.21.3/.config 2007-05-28 14:46:08.000000000 +0200 > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ > # > # Automatically generated make config: don't edit > # Linux kernel version: 2.6.21.3 > -# Mon May 28 13:41:15 2007 > +# Mon May 28 14:46:09 2007 > # > CONFIG_X86_32=y > CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y > @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ > # > # General setup > # > -CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-oldconfig1" > +CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="" > CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y > CONFIG_SWAP=y > CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y > @@ -108,9 +108,9 @@ > # > # Processor type and features > # > -# CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT is not set > +CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT=y > # CONFIG_NO_HZ is not set > -# CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is not set > +CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y > # CONFIG_SMP is not set > CONFIG_X86_PC=y > # CONFIG_X86_ELAN is not set > > The -oldconfig1 is the kernel that had no problems and the other shows the b44 > problem. So if High Resolution Timer Support is disabled everything works > fine and if I enable it the problems do appear again. > > I didn't test this on my 2.6.22-rc3 kernel yet, but I guess disabling High > Resolution Timer Support will also solve the problem there. > > The older kernels I tried also work perfectly fine and they didn't have the > High Resolution Timer Support yet. So, that's interesting, indeed. Any idea what's going on, someone? Thomas? -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
