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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 14:06:34 +0200
Subject: [ath9k-devel] Irritating issue (-tip)
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* Sujith <m.sujith@gmail.com> wrote:

> Steven Noonan wrote:
>  > Oh GOODIE. I finally caught the soft lockup. Which driver/subsystem is
>  > at fault? *drumroll*
>  > 
>  > http://www.uplinklabs.net/~tycho/linux/soft_lockup.jpg
>  > 
>  > ath9k! What a surprise. Don't get me wrong, I love the ath9k driver's
>  > -existence-, but it's amusing to me that all but a couple of my issues
>  > during the 2.6.27-rc* series have been ath9k-related.
>  > 
>  > Anyway, I'm CC-ing this to ath9k-devel, and Luis Rodriguez. Finally, I
>  > can sleep tonight.
>  > 
> 
> This is the same issue for which a patch was posted earlier [1].
> Please verify if the issue is still seen with that patch.
> 
> [1]: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=122309915413328&w=2

i've applied that patch to tip/out-of-tree and pushed out the latest 
tip/master - Steven, could you check whether that fixes the 
crashes/lockups you are experiencing?

	Ingo