On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 06:24 -0500, Joseph Fannin wrote: > This sounds like what my laptop was doing in -rc5, though mine > didn't take hours to start acting up. > > I *think* it was the MSI troubles, causing interrupts to get > lost forever. Anyway, it went away in -rc6.
Hah, that's a lot more plausible than bcm43xx's drain patch actually causing this. So maybe somehow interrupts for bcm43xx aren't routed properly or something... Ray, please check /proc/interrupts when this happens. I am convinced that the patch in question (drain tx status) is not causing this -- the patch should be a no-op in most cases anyway, and in those cases where it isn't a no-op it'll run only once at card init and remove some things from a hardware-internal FIFO. johannes
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