On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Bjørnar Hansen <tilbjornar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi again, > > I managed to use git bisect to pinpoint the exact commit that causes > my laptop to freeze: > > 53bc7aa08b48e5cd745f986731cc7dc24eef2a9f is the first bad commit > commit 53bc7aa08b48e5cd745f986731cc7dc24eef2a9f > Author: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon Apr 5 14:48:04 2010 +0530 > > ath9k: Add support for newer AR9285 chipsets. > > This patch adds support for a modified newer version of AR9285 > chipsets. > > Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > I'm CC'ing this to Vivek also. > The chipset is reported as AR9285 rev 01. by lspci (I previously > stated it was rev 2, this is wrong). > > While bisecting I found a reliable way to reproduce the freeze. I > devised a script to continuously bring the interface up and down: > > COUNTER=1 > while(true); do > sudo ifconfig wlan0 up && > sudo ifconfig wlan0 down && > echo $COUNTER && > let COUNTER=COUNTER+1 > done > > On stable kernels I let it run to around 150. On unstable kernels it > reached at most 8. Some attention to this would be appreciated. Luis -- 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
