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* ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated?
@ 2010-04-23  7:06 Pedro Francisco
  2010-04-23 13:48 ` John W. Linville
  2010-04-23 19:13 ` Dan Carpenter
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 20+ messages in thread
From: Pedro Francisco @ 2010-04-23  7:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Greetings!

Is it possible a faulty ath5k module to affect diverse parts of kernel causing 
different oopses to happen referencing things as different as cdrom_ioctl, 
find_vma, i915_gem_object_get_pages, get_vfs_caps_from_disk, 
warn_slowpath_common (ath5k_tasklet_rx), proc_lookup_de and 
_spin_lock(ext4_getattr) [soft lookup]?

The task in which such errors happen is capturing packets with kismet during 
the night. The errors aren't easy to create, sometimes they've already 
happened when I check the computer in the morning and sometimes they require 
stirring up the computer a bit such as starting X.

I memtested the machine during 7h and no error was detected.

I've been trying different kernels but main one is 2.6.32-21-generic, Ubuntu 
flavour, with linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic installed. I would 
use 2.6.34-rc5 vanilla if shutdown and suspend worked ;)

As such:
a) is it "normal"? I thought modules were somewhat isolated these days.
b) any advices for debugging? I've yet to have two oopses that are similar....

Thank you in Advance,
-- 
Pedro

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2010-04-23  7:06 ath5k misbehaving affecting other kernel parts unrelated? Pedro Francisco
2010-04-23 13:48 ` John W. Linville
2010-04-23 16:37   ` me
2010-04-23 16:43     ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2010-04-24  8:59       ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-24  8:56     ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-24 12:05       ` me
2010-04-24 12:09       ` Vegard Nossum
2010-04-24 17:28         ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-25 19:22           ` me
2010-04-25 20:29             ` Jiri Slaby
2010-04-25 21:24               ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-27 11:04                 ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-28 21:52           ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-29  7:17             ` Vegard Nossum
2010-04-29 10:25               ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-23 19:13 ` Dan Carpenter
2010-04-24  9:27   ` Pedro Francisco
2010-04-24 12:13     ` Dan Carpenter
2010-04-24 13:13       ` Pedro Francisco

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