Wifi driver stability improved -- wrong patch reverted

Paul Fertser fercerpav at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 22:07:25 CEST 2009


Hi,

Thanks for the feedback.

On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:13:28PM +0200, Nicola Mfb wrote:
> > Nicola Mfb <nicola.mfb at gmail.com> writes:
> >> I built a3587e4ed77974adfb057af261aaeea4022018e8 and commented the HTC
> >> line suggested in your patch
> > andy-tracking HEAD, that's right revision.
... 
> rebooted and tryied with nwa, starting and quitting about 4/5 times resulted in:
...
> [  743.620000] Backtrace:
> [  743.620000] [<bf14ccac>] (wmi_cmd_send+0x0/0xb4 [ar6000]) from
> [<bf14f114>] (wmi_bssfilter_cmd+0x8c/0x98 [ar6000])
> [  743.620000]  r7:00000000 r6:c6fbec20 r5:00000000 r4:c7ac8284
> [  743.620000] [<bf14f088>] (wmi_bssfilter_cmd+0x0/0x98 [ar6000]) from
> [<bf145bdc>] (ar6000_ioctl_siwscan+0x11c/0x148 [ar6000])

Quite interesting indeed. Can you possibly provide a way to reproduce it
without nwa using some bash or minimal python script?

Can you confirm it's a regression and if yes, in which version it did work
without issues?

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