[Mageia-dev] kernel problem with wifi rfkill?

Tue May 10 09:46:30 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 10/05/11 07:20 did gyre and gimble:
+> tis 2011-05-10 klockan 02:57 +0300 skrev Colin Guthrie:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 09/05/11 18:32 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> mån 2011-05-09 klockan 20:05 +0300 skrev Colin Guthrie:
+>>>> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 09/05/11 17:58 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>>> It seems (after a chat with upstream) that this patch may be the culprit:
+>>>>>
+>>>>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.38.y.git;a=commit;h=a3d77411e8b2ad661958c1fbee65beb476ec6d70
+>>>>>
+>>>>> It certainly sounds like it could be and may explain why you don't see
+>>>>> it (if you don't have this module).
+>>>>>
+>>>>> I'll try blacklisting it to see if that helps....
+>>>>
+>>>> It does, so I think this patch is indeed to blame.
+>>>>
+>>>
+>>> Would you mind rebuilding a 2.6.38.5 kernel with that patch reverted,
+>>> and verify without blacklisting that it works...
+>>>
+>>> If you dont have time to build, let me know and I'll build a testkernel
+>>> for you...
+>>
+>> Not so much the time but rather the disk space... SSDs are fast but not
+>> very big!!! :p
+>>
+> 
+> 
+> OK, a testkernel is building...
+
+You are awesome! Thanks Thomas. If this works, upstream will revert the
+patch. Just need confirmation that it really works first, so this is
+very much appreciated.
+
+Col
+
+
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