Re: ath5k deadlock w/ blob transfer

[Nils Radtke <Nils.Radtke@Think-Future.de>]

  Hi,

> I missed the first email.  What type of machine?  System lockup
> or the connection drops?  Do you get any output on the console or
> in dmesg? (try switching to a text console before your scp test.)
> If not, any output after lockup booting with nmi_watchdog=1?

IRC, no system lockup, only driver lockup. But I avoided using wireless for
blob transfer for the reliability of the lockups, so it's a couple of months
since I deliberately crashed it.. Maybe once in a while it lead to a complete
system lockup, but treat this as rumble in my memories (and could be due to
the other BUGs reported, also)..

notebook: ACER Extensa 5220
kernels since  Linux host 2.6.32.2 #4 PREEMPT Wed Dec 30 15:19:58 CET 2009 i686 and even before
lspci:
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Device 1a32:0105
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+
+FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR-
+<PERR- INTx-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
        Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>

There's another bugreport for this machine, w/ hw info: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/18/104

Ok, trying to lockup the machine once more, will report back then.

  Thanks,

  Nils