Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:09:53 +0200
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rt73usb: WARN(x) in check_sdata_in_driver()
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 08:46:47PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> Yes, I generated the wpa_supplicant.conf via netcfg (a network manager from
> ArchLinux) and used it by hand. I often noticed doing everything by myself
> works, but using netcfg or NetworkManager results in a timeout during
> wlan-connection. Haven't debugged this, but it is not related to this bug
> as it happens with other devices, too.
> 
> I now got everything running again, are you still interested in the
> wpa_supplicant.conf? Sorry, for the noice.
> Anyway, I haven't encountered the kernel-warnings, yet, but I will keep
> looking. I haven't found a way to reliably reproduce them, but I saw them
> quite often with linux-next a month ago and they seem to be gone now.
>
> Have you pushed any patches regarding this bug or do you just assume that
> this was some untested code in linux-next that should be fixed in the
> stable series for now?

We have various mac80211 fixes that could be related with this problem,
but I do not see any particular which address that directly. Perhaps
warnings ware some side effect of other bug.

> I will tell you if the bugs occur again, but as I said, they seem gone.
> Anyway, thanks for your time!

Yeh, if warnings come back, please post me wpa_supplicant.conf, and
eventually some other informations important to reproduce the problem
(except .config which you already provided).

Thanks
Stanislaw