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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ath9k very unstable and kills file-system.
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:44:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE7360B.7090700@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CE720A1.3090408@candelatech.com>

On 2010-11-20 2:13 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> It's been another frustrating week for using ath9k.
> 
> With a patched wpa_supplicant (found here:
> https://github.com/greearb/hostap-ct/tree/)
> I can reliably cause ath9k to spew all sorts of DMA warnings
> and evidently crash the hard-drive controller and/or corrupt the
> file system so bad that fsck cannot fix it.  (Back up anything you
> want to keep before attempting to reproduce this.)
The rx dma warnings went away on my devices with my patch
"ath9k: fix timeout on stopping rx dma"
Please try that one and see if it helps with your corruption issues.

- Felix

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-20  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-20  1:13 ath9k very unstable and kills file-system Ben Greear
2010-11-20  2:25 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-11-20  2:44 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2010-11-20 17:34 ` Björn Smedman

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