Thanks for the reply, Pavel. 2009/7/26 Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx>: > On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 20:15 +0100, Chris Clayton wrote: > >> One more data point. I wondered whether the freeze would "time out" if >> I just left the laptop frozen, but my testing shows that it probably >> does not (or if it does it takes more than 27 minutes to do so. > > I suggest that you run it on the text console after "dmesg -n 8", so > that all kernel messages are seen. > > I'm using rt61pci with wireless-testing, and I don't see any freezes. Do you have CONFIG_MAC80211_DEFAULT_PS enabled? I have just built and installed -rc4 with this option disabled and it has survived almost 20 minutes so far without a freeze. No previous kernel in the 2.6.31 series has survived more than 5 minutes without freezing, so this looks promising. > >> I've also tried to bisect again, but, as last time, once I got to the >> batch of network-related changes that went into -rc1, I get a series >> of kernels that build but either won't boot or have inoperable >> wireless networking. > > You can use "git bisect skip" to skip those revisions. > > You can specify the paths in "git bisect start" so that only changes to > the interesting places (like drivers/net wireless, net/mac80211 and > net/wireless) are considered when calculating the next commit. This > will probably help you avoid the bad place. > Thanks for those tips. I'll note them in my "useful stuff I might forget" notebook and then try to find time over the next few weeks to get to grips with the power of git. Chris -- No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn - Doctor Samuel Johnson -- 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
