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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:41:40PM -0700, Huub Reuver wrote:
>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 01:24:04PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
>> > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:55:31AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 07:32:41AM -0700, John W. Linville wrote:
>> > > > Did you try 2.6.34?  I'm pretty sure we merged a fix for this...
>> > >
>> > > Ditto, and I think it was not related to ath9k but mac80211.
>> > >
>> > > Was it this maybe?
>> > >
>> > > commit a9f042cbe5284f34ccff15f3084477e11b39b17b
>> > > Author: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > > Date:   Sun Feb 28 00:56:24 2010 +0800
>> > >
>> > >     ath9k: fix lockdep warning when unloading module
>> > >
>> > > Johannes had noted:
>> > >
>> > > "I think the problem is that the locking for sta_notify changed, and a
>> > > patch that was written for the new locking was backported to the old,
>> > > irq-disabled, locking."
>> >
>> > Yeah, maybe that is what I was thinking about....
>>
>> The traces do not look similar to me, but I'm not a programmer.
>>
>> I have done a few tests:
>> 2.6.32.9 not affected
>> 2.6.32.13 affected
>> 2.6.33.3 affected
>> 2.6.33.4 affected
>> 2.6.34 the problem seems to have been fixed.
>>
>> Sorry for my slow report and response.
>> Thanks for your quick answer, I'll have to switch to 2.6.34 for a
>> production kernel.
>
> Eh, I am not sure what happened here... this must've been a fix
> regression as I do not recall seeing this on earlier 2.6.32.y releases.
> Can you try an earlier 2.6.32.y?

I have a fix for this, I'll post this soon, testing 2.6.33 now.

  Luis
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