Re: ath5k deadlock w/ blob transfer
From: Bob Copeland
Date: Fri May 07 2010 - 21:18:57 EST
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Nils Radtke <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?
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