On 10/07/2010 08:12 PM, Jonathan Guerin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Bruno Randolf<b...@einfach.org> wrote: >> On Thu October 7 2010 14:41:18 Jonathan Guerin wrote: >>>> I seem to be getting a kernel panic when creating an IBSS with the >>>> latest ath5k driver. I remember Bruno submitting patches recently >>>> which modifies the behaviour of timestamps in ath5k, so I was >>>> wondering if this was related. >> >> did i? ;) i don't remember that. >> >>> Correction, this is not when creating an IBSS, but when bringing up an >>> interface in monitor-mode. >> >> hmm... i don't see that with current wireless-testing. how do you create your >> monitor interface? > > iw dev wlan0 interface add mon0 type monitor > ifconfig mon0 up >> >> bruno >> >> > > I've just tried the latest wireless-testing build (2.6.36-rc7) on two > different machines with different hardware configurations (but both > with ath5k). I get the same kernel panic, repeatable every time I > bring up a monitor mode interface (or not long after, as soon as it > sees traffic). > > I reverted the kernels to 2.6.35 and this crash no longer happens. I'm > not sure if this is related to the 'rx memory clobbering' post, so I > haven't gone and tainted it. I'm happy to provide more data if > necessary.
The ath5k STA/AP virtualization patch went in as well. Any chance you could bisect to see what patch causes the problem? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
