Switching to 4.174.64.19 firmware for G-PHY cards?

[chris at martin.cc]

2011/3/3 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>:
>
> You can revert your switching to PIO and debugging messages if you
> wish. That doesn't matter.
>
>
> My idea of what is happening:
> 1) We try to use newer firmware which does not forgive us broken TX
> header anymore
> 2) Radio does not transmit, or transmits rubbishes
> 3) mac80211 detects failure of transmitting and hits some allocation
> loop, memory leak
>
> If that patches help, it means we satisfied newer firmware and TX
> transmission goes fine. However there still probably is some alloc bug
> in mac80211 that was exposed by b43.
>

Maybe the way to investigate this further is to look at what is being
passed between
mac80211 and b43, with the different firmwares.

I will add some debugging on the weekend and see what I can uncover.

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