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Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:08:07 +0100 From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> To: Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com> CC: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.lists@...gianis.in>, Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linville@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, ath5k-devel@...ema.h4ckr.net, Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@...il.com>, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@...eros.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ath5k: fix hw rate index condition On 15.2.2009 14:47, Bob Copeland wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:27:39PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote: >> So I finally managed to hit this on 2.6.29-rc3. It is hard to >> reproduce, so I hope so much information is enough to give you a good >> guess. This time it hit while trying to connect to an open network at >> the airport. > >> WARNING: at net/mac80211/rx.c:2236 __ieee80211_rx+0x96/0x571 [mac80211]() >> Hardware name: 2007CS3 >> RATE=255, BAND=8 > > band is supposed to be sc->curband? 8 is way wrong. If you look into the patch which outputs this (backtrace in this thread), sband->n_bitrates is 8. I have no idea what I have been smoking the day I wrote it, but BAND= for sure isn't the right name for that thing. Sorry for the confusion. > rate could be 255 > if, for some reason, the hardware rate wasn't in the rate table. So, we have a fix for this, right? I mean the u8->s8 sc->rate_idx conversion or alike... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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