Return-path: Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:62786 "EHLO mail-px0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753066Ab1BYQH0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:07:26 -0500 Received: by pxi15 with SMTP id 15so275050pxi.19 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:07:25 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110225144718.63550601@realh.co.uk> References: <20110224182022.57e32862@toddler> <20110224200203.GB17412@elie> <20110225144718.63550601@realh.co.uk> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:37:25 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k causes lockups since kernel 2.6.35 From: Mohammed Shafi To: Tony Houghton Cc: Jonathan Nieder , ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, linux-wireless , Jouni Malinen , Senthil Balasubramanian , Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan , Vivek Natarajan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:21:32 +0530 > Mohammed Shafi wrote: > >> > Tony Houghton wrote: >> > >> >> With 2.6.37 I can not use suspend on my Compaq/HP 311c (Intel Atom >> >> N270/NVidia Ion LE). Originally the machine just kept locking up without >> >> even blanking the display when I tried to suspend (using the GNOME menu >> >> or by shutting the lid). > > [Snip] > > The above was from my original message before I worked out that the > problem was in the wireless because disabling and reneabling wireless, > killing the ath9k module etc, would often produce similar crashes, but > suspend seems to do it more consistently. Ok. > >> >> booting, but it's always a complete lock-up ie the keyboard is >> >> completely responsive, including caps lock, the mouse won't move if the > > I meant *un*responsive of course! > >> >> I haven't tried looking in logs because the crashes are so severe I >> >> don't think they'd be able to record anything useful. Can you please get those messages with net console ? > > If I enable debugging is there a way to get it to sync to disc after > every message? I think the developers are going to need at least that > information to be able to track this down. Yes sure, that could narrow down the issue. > >> is this issue still reproducible ? > > Yes :-(. It would be highly helpful if this issue is reproducible in the latest wireless testing or compat wireless. It will help us to fix it cleanly > >> Apart from this reporting I have not seen any other ?issues for AR9285. > > Strange, isn't it. I can't be the only person trying to use a recent > version of Linux on one of these netbooks, but I couldn't find any > similar complaints on Google. Maybe mine has an obscure fault which is > only triggered by a feature supported in the newer kernels. > also need to rule out its a platform independent issue.