Subject: Re: Lots of minstrel WARN_ONS with current -git
From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:20:13 -0800
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On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 18:13 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Thursday 15 January 2009 17:50:51 Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 17:31 +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > > On Thursday 15 January 2009 16:33:11 Michael Buesch wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 14 January 2009 23:51:20 Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > > > > Seeing lots of these WARN_ONS with current -git.  Known issue?
> > > > > 
> > > > > b43 hardware.
> > > > > 
> > > > > [41850.615621] WARNING: at net/mac80211/rc80211_minstrel.c:69 minstrel_rate_init+0x92/0x3c0()
> > > > 
> > > > I think that happens, if you have a b-only AP.
> > > 
> > > erm, see : "minstrel: fix warning if lowest supported rate index is not 0"
> > > ( http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg25799.html )
> > > 
> > > The fix is in wireless-testing & wireless-next since a few days now...
> > > Or is this a new bug?
> > 
> > I'll try that out shortly, report was against linus mainline.
> > 
> Oh? with 2.6.28 or the current 2.6.29-rcX line?
> If you get this WARNING with 2.6.29-rcX, you don't have to worry...
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2184/
> 

Yeah, somewhere a little past 2.6.29-rc1, thanks again.

Harvey