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Re: [PATCH] orinoco: abort scan on interface down

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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:18:27PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:26 PM, John W. Linville
> <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 08:33:02PM +0000, David Kilroy wrote:
> >> This fixes the problem causing the following trace:
> >>
> >> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >> WARNING: at linux-2.6.34/net/wireless/core.c:633 wdev_cleanup_work+0xb7/0xe0 [cfg80211]()
> >> Hardware name: Latitude C840
> >> Pid: 707, comm: cfg80211 Not tainted 2.6.34.7-0.5-desktop #1
> >> Call Trace:
> >>  [<c02065c3>] try_stack_unwind+0x173/0x190
> >>  [<c02051cf>] dump_trace+0x3f/0xe0
> >>  [<c020662b>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x4b/0x60
> >>  [<c0206658>] show_trace+0x18/0x20
> >>  [<c064e0b3>] dump_stack+0x6d/0x72
> >>  [<c02443ae>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6e/0xb0
> >>  [<c0244403>] warn_slowpath_null+0x13/0x20
> >>  [<e2db5497>] wdev_cleanup_work+0xb7/0xe0 [cfg80211]
> >>  [<c025cfa9>] run_workqueue+0x79/0x170
> >>  [<c025d123>] worker_thread+0x83/0xe0
> >>  [<c025fef4>] kthread+0x74/0x80
> >>  [<c0203826>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
> >> ---[ end trace 3f0348b3b0c6f4ff ]---
> >>
> >> Reported by: Giacomo Comes <comes@xxxxxxxx>
> >> Signed-off-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> This patch has only been compile tested. Given the trace, I've
> >> guessed that cfg80211 would prefer that orinoco abort the scan on
> >> interface down.
> >
> > Any chance we can get a Tested-by on this one, so I can feel good
> > about sending it for 2.6.37?
> 
> I was looking for an old PCMCIA orinoco hermes-I or -II card, but I
> found a cheat sheet from my very first Linux book from Michael Kofler.
> Which key on a EN/US keyboard is equivalent to the one on a DE
> keyboard, nice catch :-).
> Will look in the other cartons in the cellar...
> 
As I reported in another e-mail, with the patch, the trace is gone.
Unfortunatly it doesn't help make the wireles card work with WPA.

Giacomo
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