[ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35

[Mohammed Shafi <shafi.wireless@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> That's great news.
>
> Please create a couple of linux kernel bugzilla reports, one for each device.
>
> Someone related to the Debian project commented earlier on this bug;
> perhaps they'd like to be told too.
>
> thanks! I'm so very, very glad we all got to the bottom of this complete mess.
> (I'm glad it wasn't ath9k :-)

Adrian, great! you did it :-)

>
>
> Adrian
>
> On 12 July 2011 21:46, Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:37:00 +0800
>> Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Camilo, Tony, etc:
>>>
>>> Please read this article and try what they're suggesting. It has to do
>>> with an APSM commit which has negatively impacted some users (eg by
>>> causing hangs.) Sound familiar? :)
>>>
>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2638_aspm&num=2
>>>
>>> (Obviously with my ath9k patch backed out.)
>>
>> Sorry about the delay, I don't regularly use the offending netbook any
>> more. But I've reverted that APSM commit and removed your patch, and it
>> does seem to cure the problem! I'm quite surprised, because the
>> timescales/releases of the bug and that commit don't seem to match. So
>> as before, I hope Camilo and/or others can confirm this.
>>
>> It also seems to fix a similar issue I had experienced with rt2800pci.
>> Is there some sort of bug report or discussion for that APSM commit? I
>> should probably report my findings there.
>>
>>
>



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shafi