Return-path: Received: from mms1.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.17]:2638 "EHLO mms1.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751534Ab3HUO14 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:27:56 -0400 Message-ID: <5214CE5F.5010009@broadcom.com> (sfid-20130821_162817_557673_533101E4) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:27:43 +0200 From: "Arend van Spriel" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Josh Boyer" cc: "Felix Fietkau" , "Greg Kroah-Hartman" , "Tom Gundersen" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , "Linux Wireless List" , LKML , "Johannes Berg" Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 3.10.{6,7} crashes on network activity References: <20130820000336.GA15548@kroah.com> <20130820002822.GA18023@kroah.com> <5212F6E8.3090107@openwrt.org> <52132589.5000306@broadcom.com> <52147FD2.9020401@broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/21/13 14:38, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote: >>>> Hi Felix, >>>> >>>> I have been diving into root causing why brcmsmac can not handle cck >>>> fallback rates, because it should. Maybe it is better to flag no cck >>>> support >>>> and only change brcmsmac. >>> >>> >>> We have a number of users hitting this in Fedora 18 and 19 now. We're >>> tracking it with https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998080 >>> and I'm sure we can find people to test easily. >> >> >> There is already another one (possibly) dealing with the same issue: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989269 >> >> One of them should probably be flagged as duplicate. >> >> >>> If you have a patch disabling cck in brcmsmac, I'd be happy to build a >>> kernel for people. If that's going to be some time coming, perhaps >>> it's better to grab Felix's patch on a temporary basis? >> >> >> I think it is better to grab Felix's patch because as we both observed there >> is stuff missing in brcmsmac to deal with CCK rates and A-MPDU packet >> aggregation. > > OK, thanks. > > Felix, are you going to send that upstream? It already has been sent: http://mid.gmane.org/1377020634-27064-1-git-send-email-nbd@openwrt.org Johannes has submitted it to John so it is getting there soon(ish). > josh Regards, Arend