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Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] mac80211 suspend/resume

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 07:22:12AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 11:14 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > Sorry, heh, was reading mail in the wrong order I guess.
> >
> > >  - the call to ieee80211_sta_tear_down_BA_sessions was locking up so
> > >    I just dropped it for now in the interest of getting a stable base
> >
> > Probably due to transmitting again? We'll have to look and add it, but I
> > agree that we can work on that later.
> >
> > > I also tracked down the disappearing interface problem.. turns out this
> > > was just gnome-power-manager or HAL.  (I do not have 'network_sleep' set
> > > in gconf, but I didn't bother pinning it down otherwise...)  Using
> > > 'echo mem > /sys/power/state' to suspend keeps the interface up across
> > > suspend.
> >
> > Oh ok, that explains things.
> 
> Could be udev event ordering?  We do need to track this down, otherwise
> stuff simply won't work when we come back.  The best thing to do here is
> run the udev monitoring tool (whatever that is, I forget) 

That would be:

udevadm monitor --environment kernel

> and see what
> events get emitted from the kernel, then run 'lshal --monitor' and see
> what HAL thinks is going on, which it gets from consuming udev events
> and inspecting sysfs.  Stuff like this is sometimes caused by
> mis-ordered kernel events or drivers/subsystems that don't create their
> sysfs directories at the right times, leading to race conditions between
> the kernel and HAL.  A possibility.

  Luis
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