From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 21:30:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 21:30:16 -0400 Received: from samba.sourceforge.net ([198.186.203.85]:45258 "HELO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 21:30:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 11:27:40 +1000 From: David Gibson To: jt@hpl.hp.com Cc: Alan Cox , Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: Orinoco Wireless driver bugs in 2.5.17 Message-ID: <20020523012740.GN1001@zax> Mail-Followup-To: David Gibson , jt@hpl.hp.com, Alan Cox , Linux kernel mailing list In-Reply-To: <20020522103834.B10921@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20020522111751.A10992@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson