[ath9k-devel] Ath9k in funky state after adding 130 STA interfaces.

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 10/04/2010 10:51 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>  wrote:

>> I do have a few extra patches..like to restrict scanning to
>> the single associated channel, but I doubt that has much
>> impact on the bug (and it works fine in ath5k).
>
> ath5k has no power save support.
>
>> I have lockdep turned on, and pre-empt enabled in the kernel
>> configs.
>>
>> If someone prefers, I can make my entire tree available through
>> git and post .config files, etc.
>
> Try:
>
> iw dev wlan0 dev set power_save off
>
> for each wireless interface and see if you see these go away.

That seems to be helping...most of the interfaces won't actually
associate (probes to AP time-out and such), but at least it isn't
crashing so often.

Should we always disable power-save if there are > 1 VIF?

Thanks,
Ben

>
>    Luis


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