Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:10:13 GMT From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/163318: [ath] ath(4) stops working Message-ID: <201203112010.q2BKADWd000564@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/163318; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/163318: [ath] ath(4) stops working Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:07:56 -0700 Hi! On 11 March 2012 13:01, Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> wrote: > Some news... > > I updated from a Jan 18 CURRENT to a Feb 19 CURRENT some time ago and the > issue was gone. Adrian asked me to try to track down the revision that fixed > the problem, and that's what I've been doing for the last two weeks. Sweet! > Revision 231852 does not survive for very long. It dies as usual. I haven't > been able to make any revision before 231852 survive longer than 8 hours. > > Revision 231854 has survived my 12 hour testing period 3 times and I haven't > been able to crash any revision after 231854. > > Adrian, your commit to the ath driver (231854) seems to fix my ath problems. > Does that make sense to you? Nope. That just started shifting around locks. Can you please try 231852 with the debugging patch I threw you (that patched ieee80211_scan.c) and see if it complains? If that patch fixed anything, it just delayed things enough to hide what's going on... Adrian
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