[driverloader] driverloader and S3 suspend

[Peter Wittich]

Dear All,

I am using driverloader on a Dell Latitude D600, a Dell TrueMobile
1300 Wireless Card (Broadcom) and  FC 3.  Driverloader is version
2.23, driver version is  3.100.35.0 from Dell's web site.

I have finally managed to get S3 sleep working on this laptop.
However, it only works if I unload the driverloader module. This
messes with NetworkManager on Fedora in an unhappy way.  Is this
expected behavior?  It has been this way through the last few versions
of the driver.

The error I get is messages like the following for each driverloader
kernel thread. This happens both when I try to do S3 sleep (" echo mem
> /sys/power/state") and when I try to use software suspend 2.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Peter

Jan 11 15:18:55 varpen kernel: Tasks that refused to be refrigerated
and haven't since exited:
Jan 11 15:18:55 varpen kernel:  - kdldrd/normwrk (#17439) signalled
but didn't enter refrigerator.
Jan 11 15:18:55 varpen kernel: kdldrd/normwr S C0442788     0 17439   
  1         17440 17374 (L-TLB)
Jan 11 15:18:55 varpen kernel: d9041f80 00000046 d55b8020 c0442788
00108d4a 00000000 d9040000 00000282
Jan 11 15:18:55 varpen kernel:        807ad380 00108d4a d55b8020
00000000 807ad380 00108d4a c9eb8178 d9040000
Jan 11 15:18:55 varpen kernel:        dfc1984c d9041f98 d9041f98
e0abd011 e0af9940 fffffff6 e0ae6d26 dfc19854
Jan 11 15:18:55 varpen kernel: Call Trace:
Jan 11 15:18:55 varpen kernel:  [<e0abd011>] dldr_thread+0x1f1/0x280
[driverloader]
Jan 11 15:18:55 varpen kernel:  [<c011c100>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20
Jan 11 15:18:55 varpen kernel:  [<c01071a2>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14
Jan 11 15:18:55 varpen kernel:  [<c011c100>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20
Jan 11 15:18:55 varpen kernel:  [<e0abce20>] dldr_thread+0x0/0x280
[driverloader]
Jan 11 15:18:55 varpen kernel:  [<c01052cd>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x18

this is repeated for every kernel thread.