Compex WLE900N5-23

Michal Kazior michal.kazior at tieto.com
Thu Apr 30 03:50:22 PDT 2015


On 30 April 2015 at 12:31, Yeoh Chun-Yeow <yeohchunyeow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Michal
>
>> I assume you need to reboot the machine before it starts to work
>> again, no? Or does driver reload alone help?
>
> The system looks very sluggish once the firmware start to crash. But
> not required reboot.

I assume it's due to crash-restart going over and over which involves
taking RTNL - this could reduce system responsiveness.


>> Did you try to `echo 1 >
>> /sys/bus/pci/devices/xxxx:xx:xx.x/remove` and `echo 1 >
>> /sys/bus/pci/rescan`?
>> Or did you try to swap fw from 10.2 to 10.1
>> (needs driver reload) after the "bad bad crashes" start to appear?
>>
>
> I try to load 10.1 after the firmware crashed on 10.2 and it is
> working. See log below.
>
> So no changes at all for this board to use 10.2 firmware?
[...]

Did you try to reload the driver alone (without changing firmware)?
I'd like to know if it's actually 10.2 -> 10.1 that makes the crashing
go away.


Michał



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