Switching to 4.174.64.19 firmware for G-PHY cards?

[chris at martin.cc]

2011/3/7 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com>

> 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?
>


Sorry,  but no, I didn't get a chance.  I will in the next day or two.
I am planning to log all the ops functions and all the ieee80211 functions.
and then compare the logs between the stable and experimental firmware.

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