3.11.0-rc1: Crash on rmmod of ath10k_pci

Kalle Valo kvalo at qca.qualcomm.com
Fri Jul 19 06:41:22 EDT 2013


Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> writes:

>> You seem to have been lucky to trigger a race. CE is teared down
>> before we really stop interrupts and there's very small chance for an
>> interrupt to come in. This is strange, since CE interrupts are
>> disabled and only firmware (i.e. crash) interrupt may come in. I've
>> never seen firmware crash during module unloading. I have a patch for
>> this but it's based upon my recovery patchset and it's not trivial to
>> rebase the fix.
>
> I plan to do further testing on the 'ath' repository, so hopefully
> no need for porting patches around.  If/when that is stable, can see
> about testing mainline.

Yes, please base your work on the ath.git repository instead of mainline
(=Linus' releases). At this stage when we don't have that many users we
would not want to use time on the mainline, the time is much better
spent on improving the driver itself.

-- 
Kalle Valo



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