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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:44:27 +0100
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
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To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Subject: Re: ath9k very unstable and kills file-system.
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On 2010-11-20 2:13 AM, Ben Greear wrote:
> It's been another frustrating week for using ath9k.
> 
> With a patched wpa_supplicant (found here:
> https://github.com/greearb/hostap-ct/tree/)
> I can reliably cause ath9k to spew all sorts of DMA warnings
> and evidently crash the hard-drive controller and/or corrupt the
> file system so bad that fsck cannot fix it.  (Back up anything you
> want to keep before attempting to reproduce this.)
The rx dma warnings went away on my devices with my patch
"ath9k: fix timeout on stopping rx dma"
Please try that one and see if it helps with your corruption issues.

- Felix