Re: [Rt2400-devel] Please pull 'upstream' branch of rt2x00

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

Will Dyson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Only 5 patches, but they do bump rt2x00 to a new version: 2.2.0
>> This series will add HW crypto support to rt2x00, by default it
>> has been enabled for rt61pci and rt73usb.
> 
> Seems to work well on my rt61pci card!
> 
> In fact, it reports a higher link quality (and maintains a higher
> bitrate) than the version in current wireless-testing. The quality
> report also fluctuates less than previously. This is consistent over a
> few hours of testing with streaming PCM audio.
> 
> I do get a lockdep warning when bringing up the device, however.
> 
> =============================================
> [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> 2.6.27-rc1-rt2-wl #1
> ---------------------------------------------
> rt61pci/4405 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (_xmit_IEEE80211#2){-...}, at: [<ffffffffa014cc52>]
> ieee80211_scan_completed+0x172/0x320 [mac80211]
> 
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (_xmit_IEEE80211#2){-...}, at: [<ffffffffa014cc52>]
> ieee80211_scan_completed+0x172/0x320 [mac80211]
> 

I get that same lockdep warning when using the mainline kernel with b43. It 
doesn't seem to cause any problems.

Larry