From: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: jt@hpl.hp.com
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Orinoco Wireless driver bugs in 2.5.17
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 11:27:40 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020523012740.GN1001@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020522103834.B10921@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <E17Aams-0002Ue-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20020522111751.A10992@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:17:51AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 07:24:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Alan,
> > > Could you be more precise and point out which kernel start
> > > failing ?
> >
> > Certainly in 2.4.18 (and I've seen a pile of other similar reports).
>
> 2.4.18 did upgrade the driver from 0.06f to 0.09b. The bug
> with 0.09b is a race condition in Tx code. This was fixed in version
> 0.11.
Yes. Unfortunately a bunch of the bug fixes we made between 0.06f and
0.09b uncovered other, even worse, bugs - at least on some
hardware/firmware.
It also would have helped if I'd been pushing to the kernel more
frequently, but I got slack.
> Have you tried 2.4.19-pre8-acX (well, I mean the Orinoco
> driver in 2.4.19-pre8 ;-). It contains the new version of the driver
> (v11) that fixes the race condition (but introduce the potential COR
> problem).
> If 2.4.19-pre8-acX fails, that would be for an entirely
> different reason (even if the failure might look similar).
Yes checking 0.11b, which is in Marcelo's latest -pres (and in
2.5.17), would be very helpful
--
David Gibson | For every complex problem there is a
david@gibson.dropbear.id.au | solution which is simple, neat and
| wrong. -- H.L. Mencken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-23 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-22 17:38 Orinoco Wireless driver bugs in 2.5.17 Jean Tourrilhes
2002-05-22 18:24 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 18:17 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2002-05-23 1:27 ` David Gibson [this message]
2002-05-23 1:25 ` David Gibson
2002-05-29 18:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-29 17:42 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2002-06-02 23:38 ` David Gibson
2002-06-03 1:08 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <385229951@toto.iv>
2002-05-27 9:27 ` Peter Chubb
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2002-05-23 3:21 Erik McKee
2002-05-22 0:06 Peter Chubb
2002-05-22 1:53 ` David Gibson
2002-05-22 13:16 ` Alan Cox
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