Bug 10024

Summary:	2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component:	network-wireless	Assignee:	drivers_network-wireless (drivers_network-wireless)
Status:	CLOSED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	bunk, IvDoorn, stefano.brivio, uncommonnonsense, wade
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.25-rc2	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	9832

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-02-17 12:43:40 UTC

Subject         : 2.6.25-rc2 regression in rt61pci wireless driver
Submitter       : "Chris Clayton" <chris2553@googlemail.com>
Date            : 2008-02-16 13:06
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/16/82

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.24.  Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.

Comment 1 Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-02-24 16:37:02 UTC

Handled-By : Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>

Comment 2 Rafael J. Wysocki 2008-03-02 17:16:38 UTC

Handled-By : Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/2/26

Comment 3 Edoardo Vacchi 2008-03-03 08:12:59 UTC

it seems that this patch is preventing the panic, but still after some network activity there is some kind of fault for which the connection is in fact lost (while appears to be working)

I'm connecting to a wpa2 ap

Comment 4 Edoardo Vacchi 2008-03-03 08:21:53 UTC

oh, I have to add I've tried the whole 2.6.25-rc2 wireless-testing tree, and that I didn't find any relevant dmesg output

Comment 5 Adrian Bunk 2008-03-09 17:34:43 UTC

fixed by commit 1d60ab0574fae362b1cca0ef52181ef75fd46832