On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 04:57:08PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:26 PM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:24:14PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote: > > > >> I have already reported on linux-wireless (short: l-w) ML that after > >> especially the merge of "AHB Bus support" patchset (see [2]) my ath5k > >> was not working as expected in daily use (also modinfo). > >> > >> I am not sure if it is the driver but reverting the 9 commits in my > >> local linux-next GIT seemed to "stabilize" a bit the Internet > >> connection. > >> The patchset from Nick (see below) definitely helped to stabilize ath5k. > > > > I imagine that these are the "9 commits" you mean: > > > >> git rev-list c30ae13..4cebb34 > > 4cebb34caa5122216a1e2451eae9e0fc47ec2589 > > a0b907ee2a71052fefdf6151764095f3f97b3275 > > c31b5c9c806b1fbdc9e98885d897664a0d482989 > > e7aecd327d80b2f156b54769013aaccb2a20645a > > 8efa5d7d6ad307ae2d220def37ca89594062c40d > > 4aa5d783c9e1c72e4950ff34f388077ccecac74a > > e5b046d86fac609f636d127a38de94a175c7e83b > > 132b1c3ee38ea6fa0501004fd0f19acb554e5a44 > > aeae4ac9090462ea38387dcdbac4f01b944af6a4 > > > > Most of those look fairly harmless so long as you don't define > > CONFIG_ATHEROS_AR231X. Just to narrow things down...if you only revert > > the first 8 (i.e. leave aeae4ac alone), do you still have problems? > > Or does it still "stabilize"? > > > > That patch converts the driver to the generic DMA API. It seems > > OK at first glance, but I suspect it is the only one likely to be > > effecting your situation. > > > > John > > -- > > John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you > > linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. > > > > Before jumping to another problem, I had a quick look into the > appropriate Kconfig file, as you say I have not CONFIG_ATHEROS_AR231X > set and that's why AHB support is not selected/built, instead > > CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/pci.o > > is built. > > Unfortunately, I can't cleanly revert. Sorry, I can't help. I don't quite understand -- you said you were reverting them before, but now I ask you to revert one _less_ patch (i.e. the last one to be reverted anyway) and you can't do it? John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
