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Message-ID: <p2pb6c5339f1005071818u489804e7ud40fe3feb5459bb8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 21:18:44 -0400 From: Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com> To: Nils Radtke <lkml@...nk-future.de> Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: ath5k deadlock w/ blob transfer On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Nils Radtke <lkml@...nk-future.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Guess, this is better suited in here: >> - ath5k: when starting a blob transfer eg. ssh summer.jpg to the >> notebook with the ath5k driver running, the wNIC freezes almost >> immediately! Dead device. This is unfortunately too easily reproducible. > So where should I be posting this? You're in the right place... > When both drivers deadlock it's either a common > base in the wireless driver premisses or yet up the path somewhere in the > kernel code. (Or hardware. madwifi doesn't use mac80211 so it is probably not common code, but ath5k could have inherited a bug from it.) > Ideas? 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? -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- 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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