On Thursday 31 January 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:13:31PM +0000, Chris Clayton wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > On Wednesday 23 January 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:42:58PM +0000, Chris Clayton wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 23 January 2008, Chris Clayton wrote: > > > > > Hi again. > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 22 January 2008, Chris Clayton wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > and here's another, slightly more complete, one, this time from 2.6.24-rc8-git6 > > > > (the none I sent earlier was from -git4, by the way) > > > > > > > > Call Trace: > > > > [<c011440a>] __update_rq_clock+0x1a/0xf0 > > > > [<e08ff59d>] rt2x00lib_txdone+0x9d/0xd0 [rt2x00lib] > > > > [<e0909573>] rt61pci_txdone+0x153/0x1f0 [rt61pci] > > > > [<e09096ad>] rt61pci_interrupt+0x9d/0xb0 [rt61pci] > > > > > > I suspect this could relate to this commit: > > > > > > commit 62bc060b8ed5fcdafd87da5ab17bdd59a39ebcc9 > > > Author: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@xxxxxx> > > > Date: Mon Nov 12 15:03:12 2007 +0100 > > > > > > rt2x00: Allow rt61 to catch up after a missing tx report > > > > > > Could you revert that patch, rebuild, and try to recreate the problem? > > > > As you will have seen, Matthias doubted whether his patch would be at the root > > of the problem I am seeing. I noticed you posted some patches earlier this week. > > Would any combination of those be likely to fix the bug, please? The patch > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/upstream/0001-rt61pci-fix-up-merge-damage.patch > > applies cleanly to 2.6.24 but the build fails :( > > This patch is not intended for 2.6.24, so that won't help. :-) > > I saw Mattias's reply, but I didn't see him suggest any other > fixes... :-( I'm wondering if maybe you tried reverting it anyway? > I only ask because the call trace references symbols that would seem > to relate to the patch. So even if _why_ it might break things isn't > obvious, it still might be worth trying a revert "just in case". :-) > Yes, I did revert Matthias' patch- see http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=120116461507261&w=4 which is what Matthias was replying to. > > It seems that it may take a little while to get to the bottom of this bug. Should > > I raise an incident on bugzilla? > > I've seen other reports of rt61 working fine with 2.6.24. So I > suppose you should open a bug. > OK, I'll do that. Incidentally, I've seen other posting to the linux-wireless list containing discussion about problems when using an 11g device to connect to an 11b AP. That's exactly what I am doing with a Belkin F5D7010 wireless adapter and a Draytek Vigor 2600WE AP. > Thanks! > > John -- Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
