Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:13:47 -0600
From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Fabio Rossi <rossi.f@inwind.it>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: regression with kernel 3.8
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:38:38PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 13:26 -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 07:18:16PM +0100, Fabio Rossi wrote:
> > > I'm using the latest wireless-testing.git and I have found a regression with 
> > > kernel 3.8. I don't know if this is related to the driver I'm using (ath5k) but 
> > > I have bisected the problem to the commit 
> > > 6c17b77b67587b9f9e3070fb89fe98cef3187131 (mac80211: Fix tx queue handling 
> > > during scans). Basically the authentication and association infos don't appear 
> > > anymore in the kernel logs during a connection to my access point.
> > > 
> > > Tell me what you need to further debug the issue and solve the problem.
> > 
> > That patch is after 3.8.
> > 
> > Johannes, this looks like a problem with the changes you made when
> > applying that patch. I really should have tested the result before now.
> 
> Hmm, crap. Sorry about that!
> 
> > I think the off-channel frames are getting queued rather than passed
> > down to the driver, which obviously isn't what we want. I'll get this
> > fixed.
> 
> I saw you posted it, I'll take a closer look tomorrow morning.

Have you had a chance to look at the patch yet? I think we ought to try
and get this fixed pretty quickly.

Seth