Dave, One more for 2.6.27 -- a fix for a possible interrupt storm. There is even a link in the commit log to a youtube video of the storm in progress. :-) Let me know if there are problems! John --- Individual patch is available here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/linville/wireless-2.6/ --- The following changes since commit 4c07ab0fe4b4eaa0fc31f640ca65da7c173f5043: David S. Miller (1): Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/.../linville/wireless-2.6 are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git master Luis R. Rodriguez (1): ath9k: disable MIB interrupts to fix interrupt storm drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c index c049593..87e37bc 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c @@ -795,6 +795,12 @@ int ath_open(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath9k_channel *initial_chan) if (ah->ah_caps.hw_caps & ATH9K_HW_CAP_HT) sc->sc_imask |= ATH9K_INT_CST; + /* Note: We disable MIB interrupts for now as we don't yet + * handle processing ANI, otherwise you will get an interrupt + * storm after about 7 hours of usage making the system unusable + * with huge latency. Once we do have ANI processing included + * we can re-enable this interrupt. */ +#if 0 /* * Enable MIB interrupts when there are hardware phy counters. * Note we only do this (at the moment) for station mode. @@ -802,6 +808,7 @@ int ath_open(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath9k_channel *initial_chan) if (ath9k_hw_phycounters(ah) && ((sc->sc_opmode == ATH9K_M_STA) || (sc->sc_opmode == ATH9K_M_IBSS))) sc->sc_imask |= ATH9K_INT_MIB; +#endif /* * Some hardware processes the TIM IE and fires an * interrupt when the TIM bit is set. For hardware -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx of your literate lifestyle. -- 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
