On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 17:33 +0100, Gabor Juhos wrote:

> I'm testing the ath9k driver in STA mode on an Atheros AR913x based board.

>  (&local->sta_lock){.+..}
> ... which became soft-irq-safe at:
>   [<800b21cc>] __lock_acquire+0x5a8/0x844
>   [<800b24c4>] lock_acquire+0x5c/0x84
>   [<8006b980>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x50/0x74
>   [<c020570c>] ieee80211_beacon_get+0x14c/0x3a4 [mac80211]
>   [<c0341e08>] ath9k_beacon_tasklet+0x304/0x5c4 [ath9k]

Something is mismatched here. STA mode != beaconing.

johannes