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Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:11:54 -0400 From: Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...x.de, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, rjw@...k.pl, netdev@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, dwmw2@...radead.org, alsa-devel@...a-project.org, dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: kerneloops.org report for the week of June 14 2009 On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Arjan van de Ven<arjan@...radead.org> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:08:39 -0400 > Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com> wrote: >> > Rank 9: minstrel_get_rate (warning) >> >> I believe this is fixed by http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/5/269, now >> in pre-2.6.31. Hmm, odd though, we should be seeing reports from >> other wireless drivers since it's a general memory corruption >> unrelated to ath5k (but not all use the mac80211 rate controllers). > > well.. out of the 534 reports or so that I have by now... 525 have > ath5k loaded..... > > it's not 100% but it'd pretty close. Indeed, I can replicate this now, looks like some kind of race condition since it's looking for a rate in the 5 ghz band while I'm communicating with a 2 ghz AP (during a scan perhaps?). The warning is harmless but there is some underlying issue to be fixed. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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