[Fwd: [wireless] rt2870sta BUGs on shutdown, 2.6.30.2->git.today+git.wireless.today]

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 07:14:04AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 10:35 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:27:29PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 10:07 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:01:15PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 08:22 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:38:55AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > > > > > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > > > > > > From: Mike Galbraith <efault at gmx.de>
> > > > > > > To: linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org
> > > > > > > Cc: LKML <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>, John W. Linville
> > > > > > > <linville at tuxdriver.com>
> > > > > > > Subject: [wireless] rt2870sta BUGs on shutdown, 2.6.30.2->git.today
> > > > > > > +git.wireless.today
> > > > > > > Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:22:54 +0200
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Greetings,
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > $subject appears (at glance) to happen because threads have already
> > > > > > > exited when we get to BUG_ON(), I haven't pursued it though.  Using
> > > > > > > rt3070sta instead of rt2870sta works a treat with same box/adapter.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > (the 2009_0521_RT2870_Linux_STA_V2.1.2.0 tree patches and rpm'd up for
> > > > > > > opensuse-11.1 with kernels 27->29 doesn't BUG.. for 30 onward, I'm using
> > > > > > > the in kernel staging drivers)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Yeah, I think we need to just revert that patch, I'll go dig it up and
> > > > > > do it later today...
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Can you test any proposed patches for this?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sure thing, only takes a couple minutes.
> > > > 
> > > > Great, here's a patch against 2.6.30.1.  Let me know if it solves the
> > > > problem for you or not.
> > > 
> > > Confirmed.  Thanks Greg.
> > 
> > Ok, thanks.  I'll port this to .31-rc and also get it into the next
> > .30 stable release sometime next week.  Thanks for testing.
> 
> Perhaps I can save you a couple minutes with a tested .31-rc patch.
> 
> (off to wash eyes out with Mr. Proper;)

Wonderful, thanks so much for this patch, I'll go queue it up!

greg k-h