Subject: 2.6.19-rc1 regression: airo suspend fails

From: Adrian Bunk <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 20:47:07 +0200

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 09:31:16PM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > so please give it a good testing, and let's see if there are any 
> > regressions.
> 
> it breaks suspend when the airo module is loaded:
> 
> kernel: Stopping tasks: =================================================================================
> kernel:  stopping tasks timed out after 20 seconds (1 tasks remaining):
> kernel:   eth1
> kernel: Restarting tasks...<6> Strange, eth1 not stopped
> 
> if i remove the airo module suspend works normally (this is on a
> thinkpad t40).

Thanks for your report.

Let's try to figure out what broke it.

As a first step, please replace drivers/net/wireless/airo.c with the 
version in 2.6.18 and check whether this fixes the issue (you can ignore 
the deprecated warning during compilation).

> --alex--

cu
Adrian

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