[Pm-utils] Unloading iwl3945

Stefan Seyfried seife at suse.de
Fri Jul 20 10:23:05 PDT 2007


On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:41:24AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> On a few machines here at the office the module iwl3945 has to be
> unloaded on suspend to make it work. I've noticed that NetworkManager
> reloads the module _after_ we've rmmod'ed it, and hence suspend fails
> until we "blacklist" the module from modprobe.d.
> 
> The NetworkManager Sleep() is done well before the rmmod, so I'm lost to
> what the best plan of attack is here[1].

1) Fix the module.
2) Fix NetworkManager

> [1] Yes, I know, "Fix the driver" but it's pretty slow progress and
> breaks a lot of resumes.

Ah! You already knew!

:-)
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