On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 23:58 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.32-11 > Severity: normal > > I often keep getting this allocation failure message. My gut feel is > that it gets triggered when I do some I/O. Today, it got triggered when > I was copying a couple of Gig data from my local encrypted backup > partition to an external USB disk. [...] This is a bug/limitation in the iwlwifi drivers. It appears to be fixed in Linux 2.6.33, but it requires quite a large change. The next release of Debian will be based on Linux 2.6.32 and I don't know whether we will be able to apply that change. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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