Re: ipw2200: firmware DMA loading rework
Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:56:48 +0300
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| Message-ID | <1253530608.5216.17.camel@penberg-laptop> |
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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to [email protected]. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"[email protected]"> [email protected] </a>