Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH 3/3] ath9k: Keep track of stations for debugfs.

[Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>]

Ben Greear wrote:
> > but at least other clueless users would not go over stable limit
> > you have found.
> 
> I think it's very likely that the problems I find are general
> issues that are just much easier to hit with lots of stations.

I strongly support this. I recognize several of your problems from my
attempts at using ath9k with only a single STA which was all but stable.


> There is probably no 'safe' number of stations...just takes longer
> to see bugs with fewer stations.
> 
> For instance, you still see the failure-to-stop-DMA errors with a
> single station, right? And the tx locking stuff was just easier to
> exercise with lots of stations, but it would have been possible to
> hit it with 2 stations.
> 
> The current tx-hang stuff I'm chasing seems like logic bugs in the
> queueing, probably nothing in particular about the chipset.

This is also my impression. Since it is important for Atheros to have
bugzilla reports rather than discussion on list I will try to find
time for creating more and/or new bug reports about my problems.

(But the ones I have created so far did not really receive very good
response.)

Note that my AR9280 is not even detected correctly on PCI now so I
may switch back to AR5008 for that.

I really should try out FreeBSD too.


//Peter