On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Larry Finger wrote: > A crash upon booting that is caused by bcm43xx has been reported [1] and > found to be due to a work queue being reinitialized while work on that > queue is still pending. This fix modifies the shutdown of work queues and > prevents periodic work from being requeued during shutdown. With this patch, > no more crashes on reboot were observed by the original reporter. I do not > get that particular failure on my system; however, when running a large > number of ifdown/ifup sequences, my system would kernel panic with the > 'caps lock' light blinking at roughly a 1 Hz rate. In addition, there were > infrequent failures in the firmware that resulted in 'IRQ READY TIMEOUT' > errors. With this patch, no more of the first type of failure occur, and > incidence of the second type is greatly reduced. > > [1] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8937 > > Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> This version of the patch is Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> - 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
