linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] 3.10.{6,7} crashes on network activity

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Message-ID: <5214CE5F.5010009@broadcom.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:27:43 +0200
From:	"Arend van Spriel" <arend@...adcom.com>
To:	"Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
cc:	"Felix Fietkau" <nbd@...nwrt.org>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Tom Gundersen" <teg@...m.no>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linux Wireless List" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Johannes Berg" <johannes@...solutions.net>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 3.10.{6,7} crashes on network activity

On 08/21/13 14:38, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Arend van Spriel<arend@...adcom.com>  wrote:
>>>> Hi Felix,
>>>>
>>>> I have been diving into root causing why brcmsmac can not handle cck
>>>> fallback rates, because it should. Maybe it is better to flag no cck
>>>> support
>>>> and only change brcmsmac.
>>>
>>>
>>> We have a number of users hitting this in Fedora 18 and 19 now.  We're
>>> tracking it with https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998080
>>> and I'm sure we can find people to test easily.
>>
>>
>> There is already another one (possibly) dealing with the same issue:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989269
>>
>> One of them should probably be flagged as duplicate.
>>
>>
>>> If you have a patch disabling cck in brcmsmac, I'd be happy to build a
>>> kernel for people.  If that's going to be some time coming, perhaps
>>> it's better to grab Felix's patch on a temporary basis?
>>
>>
>> I think it is better to grab Felix's patch because as we both observed there
>> is stuff missing in brcmsmac to deal with CCK rates and A-MPDU packet
>> aggregation.
>
> OK, thanks.
>
> Felix, are you going to send that upstream?

It already has been sent: 
http://mid.gmane.org/1377020634-27064-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org

Johannes has submitted it to John so it is getting there soon(ish).

> josh

Regards,
Arend



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