Switching to 4.174.64.19 firmware for G-PHY cards?

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 07:26:59 EST 2011


W dniu 4 marca 2011 01:37 użytkownik chris at martin.cc <chris at martin.cc> napisał:
> 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.

Did you play with that bug over weekend? Any news?

-- 
Rafał



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