From: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
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Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:30:56 +0530
To: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Wireless failures 3.10.17-3
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Dave Taht wrote:
> OK, I couldn't help myself but boot up that release. Wet paint! It
> successfully brought up
> the 5ghz radio, but did not manage to assign an ip address to it
> (netifd bug?) and failed on the 2ghz radio utterly.
> 
> trying to restart it manually fails to bring up the 5ghz radio as well.
> Here's an strace of that.
> 
> http://snapon.lab.bufferbloat.net/~d/hostapd.strace.txt
> 
> I don't see it beacon, either.
> 
> Now, I don't have a grip on what started happening two releases back
> (I was out of town) but I figure it is perhaps more relevant than
> chasing the DMA tx thing. And ENOTIME for me on this til sunday. I
> will revert this patch and bisect backwards.

I am not sure how the patch would break things.

Booting OpenWrt trunk (with the patch) on an AP96 reference board seems
to work fine: http://pastebin.com/3rPSfuad

Sujith