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Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH] mac80211: disassociate when switching bands and not scanning

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Luis R.
Rodriguez<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Luis R.
> Rodriguez<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Johannes Berg<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 14:04 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:03 PM, reinette
>>>> chatre<reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >> > This touches code targeted for removal in recent "mac80211: disconnect
>>>> >> > when user changes channel" patch.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Heh I don't see that patch yet but if it exists that should fix this
>>>> >> too unless that patch didn't deauth/disassoc. Did you try with it
>>>> >> applied by any chance? I can't seem to find that patch on the list.
>>>> >
>>>> > That patch does seem to have same intention as yours. It is still RFC so
>>>> > I am not sure about its status. I did not test with it, but will do so.
>>>> > The patch can be found at
>>>> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=124458448631186&w=2
>>>>
>>>> Thanks yes, I see, yup I think that should fix it, we need a fix for
>>>> stable though. Not sure how John or Johannes want to handle this.
>>>
>>> *scratches head*
>>> are you advocating those rate cleanups for stable?
>>
>> No, a few fixes are needed for stable (now 2.6.30) though. For example
>> the assert downgrade patch can be used but most likely that'll just be
>> doing something completely wrong, so we do need to ensure the dynamic
>> ps stuff does not trigger when scanning and I do consider that a
>> proper fix for stable. I forget when ps stuff when in.
>>
>> The issue here is this *is* a bug not only for iwlwifi. iwlwifi
>> currently gets no warning because of a work around in the driver's
>> rate control algorithm as it is in stable. I haven't tried running
>> this band change with ath9k
>
> Just to clarify -- I did run this with the patches I posted and I did
> hit the warning, but I did not try this without the patches I posted.
> Chances that will cause the kernel to commit suicide and oops.

As expected I was able to reproduce the warning with atht5k and ath9k
on 2.6.30. I did not get a crash with ath9k though, which is good. But
the warning is still present.

Do we want to fix this for stable? If so is the patch I posted reasonable?

  Luis
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