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Hi,

I also have this problem with that message appearing in my console. As
far as I know it has to do with that Jumbo frame processing  is broken
in the ath5k driver. It's listen under the ath5k todo tasks at
<http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k>.

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Every now and then, I get a few messages like the following:
>
> [11316.285087] ath5k phy0: unsupported jumbo
> [14256.975594] ath5k phy0: unsupported jumbo
> [26376.342970] ath5k phy0: unsupported jumbo
>
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c tells me this is unlikely (or at
> least the slow path), and that it means that after calling the
> sc->ah->ah_proc_rx_desc(sc->ah, ds, &rs) callback, rs.rs_more was
> nonzero.
>
> What I still don’t know:
>
>  - So, what happened?
>  - Does this indicate some subtle misconfiguration?
>  - Is this a hardware bug?
>  - Is this a driver bug?
>
> The network generally works great, so there is no cause for me to
> worry, but still it would give me some peace of mind to know.
>
> In turn, I would gladly write a Documentation/networking/ath5k.txt or
> a comment near drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c:1817 for others
> to refer to.
>
> Thoughts?
> Jonathan
>
> $ uname -r
> 2.6.33-rc4-next-20100121-04118-gbaa1751
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