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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
	Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath5k-devel@venema.h4ckr.net,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ath5k regression associating with APs in 2.6.38
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 13:27:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110504172716.GC18541@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110504153819.GA4551@thinkpad-t410>

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:38:19AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> I've been investigating some reports of a regression in associating with
> APs with AR2413 in 2.6.38. Association repeatedly fails with some
> "direct probe to x timed out" messages (see syslog excerpt below),
> although it will generally associate eventually, after many tries.
> 
> Bisection identifies 8aec7af (ath5k: Support synth-only channel change
> for AR2413/AR5413) as offending commit. Prior to this commit there are
> no direct probe messages at all in the logs. I've also found that
> forcing fast to false at the top of ath5k_hw_reset() fixes the issue.
> I'm not sure what the connection is between this commit and the
> timeouts. Any suggestions?

Have you tried reverting that commit on top of 2.6.38?  Can you
recreate the issue with 2.6.39-rc6 (or later)?

John
-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-04 15:38 ath5k regression associating with APs in 2.6.38 Seth Forshee
2011-05-04 17:27 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2011-05-04 19:26   ` Seth Forshee
2011-05-04 20:09     ` Nick Kossifidis
2011-05-05 13:52       ` Seth Forshee
2011-05-05 14:30         ` Nick Kossifidis
2011-05-05 14:54           ` Seth Forshee
2011-05-05 15:01           ` Justin P. Mattock
2011-05-05 15:15             ` Nick Kossifidis
2011-05-09  7:02           ` Seth Forshee
2011-05-17 16:57             ` Seth Forshee
2011-05-17 17:14               ` Nick Kossifidis
2011-05-17 18:50                 ` Seth Forshee
2011-05-19 21:28                   ` Seth Forshee
2011-05-31 17:31                 ` [ath5k-devel] " Felix Fietkau

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