Switching to 4.174.64.19 firmware for G-PHY cards?

[chris at martin.cc]

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Chris Martin
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On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
wrote:
> On 03/02/2011 06:20 AM, chris at martin.cc wrote:
>>
>> 2011/3/2 Rafał Miłecki<zajec5 at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> I checked for kernels in OpenWRT.
>>> OpenWRT 10.03 is 2.6.32.10
>>> OpenWRT 10.03.1-rc4 is 2.6.32.25
>>>
>>> I can see 2.6.32(.0) at least have:
>>> b43: Add LP PHY Analog Switch Support
>>> that's good.
>>>
>>> Maybe compiling b43 with debugging could help to understand what is
>>> going on? Could insmod b43.ko pio=1 be workaround?
>>>
>>
>> Just to clarify.  I tested 10.03-rc4 - and trunk wicth is 2.6.36.x
>> I will also confirm the versions tomorrow
>
> Chris,
>
> This problem is getting more and more curious.
>
> I have two systems with 14e4:4315 LP PHY cards. One is x86_64 and the
other
> is i386. I added kmemleak checking to each and have been running
networking
> for about 3 hours on the 64-bit system, and 18 hours for 32 bit. Neither
> shows any memory leaks associated with b43. Both are using 508.1084
> firmware. Most of the tests were in STA mode, but a few minutes with one
> hosting an AP for the other has not shown any leaks.
>
> I imagine that memory is pretty tight on the openWRT system. Does "free"
> work there? If so, what are the results just before you start the
bridging?
>
> Larry