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Re: 2.6.31-rc2: Possible regression in rt61pci driver

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Chris

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 14:34, Chris Clayton<chris2553@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/7/28 Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi Chris
>
>> Can you do a very dumb test for me?
>>
>> Boot your laptop by adding 'irqpoll' to the kernel command line
>> options and see if the problem still occours.
>>
>
> Not so dumb a request, actually.  Running -rc4 with the irqpoll
> command line option, the laptop has just survived 30 minutes without a
> freeze. It can't survive more than 5 minutes without that option.
>
> Chris

Well, if the laptop hangs on working without any problems, this may
proove to be some strange kind of hardware incompatibility.

The irqpoll option solves some of the interrupt related problems, by
polling them instead of 'grabbing' them (at least that is what I think
it is happening, correct me if I'm wrong:))


Luis Correia
rt2x00 project admin
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