Search Linux Wireless

Re: wireless regressions -- Re: 2.6.31-rc5-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.30

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:04 AM, John W. Linville<linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 10:36:49PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.30, for which there
>>> are no fixes in the mainline I know of.  If any of them have been fixed already,
>>> please let me know.
>>
>> Wireless-related ones...
>
> Some notes on some of these.
>
>>> Unresolved regressions
>>> ----------------------
>>
>>> Bug-Entry     : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13947
>>> Subject               : Libertas: Association request to the driver failed
>>> Submitter     : Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Date          : 2009-08-07 19:11 (3 days old)
>>> First-Bad-Commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=57921c312e8cef72ba35a4cfe870b376da0b1b87
>>> References    : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124967234311481&w=4
>>> Handled-By    : Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bug-Entry     : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13943
>>> Subject               : WARNING: at net/mac80211/mlme.c:2292 with ath5k
>>> Submitter     : Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date          : 2009-08-06 20:15 (4 days old)
>>> References    : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124958978600600&w=4
>
> As I noted earlier this comes from the fact that a driver or mac80211
> is queuing work onto the mac80211 workqueue when we already ran the
> mac80211 suspend callbacks and we haven't yet resumed. There have been
> several fixes for these, for both drivers and mac80211. We've already
> pushed them to wireless-testing but I do not recall which ones have
> been propagated to 2.6.31 as fixes.

This is on my todo and I haven't looked into this very hard yet,
but afaik ath5k doesn't (directly) use the mac80211 workqueue, so
my guess in Fabio's case would be further up the stack.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
--
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

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux