I would say, that the patch you quoted fixes the problem, but probably causes another. After applying it, the are no more 'uninterruptible' bashes, but again with heavy network activity (torrent for example) network connection is broken. No more network activity is possible. See attached trace.
** Attachment added: "atl1c problem call trace" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37007618/atheros_deadlock_fix_trace.txt -- [Karmic] atl1c module causes call traces in /var/log/messages and probably freezes bash (sic!) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/461990 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs