On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 12:46 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > I don't know why people don't see it but for me it has a memory management > > > regression and reliability issue written all over it. > > > > Possibly but drivers that reload their firmware as a response to an > > error condition is relatively new and loading network drivers while the > > system is already up and running a long time does not strike me as > > typical system behaviour. > > Loading drivers after boot is a typical desktop/laptop behavior, please > think about hotplug (the hardware in question is an USB dongle). Yeah, I wonder what broke things. Did the wireless stack change in 2.6.31-rc1 too? IIRC Mel ruled out page allocator changes as a suspect. Pekka -- 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