linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #14352] WARNING: at net/mac80211/scan.c:267

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Message-ID: <1259331116.5428.20.camel@johannes.local>
Date:	Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:11:56 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug #14352] WARNING: at net/mac80211/scan.c:267

On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 15:10 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 14:46 +0100, Sebastian Ott wrote:
> 
> > [ 5724.754068] iwl3945 0000:03:00.0: Error sending REPLY_SCAN_CMD: time 
> > out after 500ms.
> 
> That tells you there's something wrong with the device -- and maybe the
> driver is misbehaving by telling mac80211 that it couldn't scan but then
> still calling scan_completed().
> 
> In any case, driver bug as far as I can tell.

Oh and it's also not /this/ bug for sure, it just happens to hit the
same WARN_ON(), but the cause is very different.

johannes

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