> On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 04:57:08PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:26 PM, John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 12:24:14PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have already reported on linux-wireless (short: l-w) ML that after
>> >> especially the merge of "AHB Bus support" patchset (see [2]) my ath5k
>> >> was not working as expected in daily use (also modinfo).
>> >>
>> >> I am not sure if it is the driver but reverting the 9 commits in my
>> >> local linux-next GIT seemed to "stabilize" a bit the Internet
>> >> connection.
>> >> The patchset from Nick (see below) definitely helped to stabilize ath5k.
>> >
>> > I imagine that these are the "9 commits" you mean:
>> >
>> >> git rev-list c30ae13..4cebb34
>> > 4cebb34caa5122216a1e2451eae9e0fc47ec2589
>> > a0b907ee2a71052fefdf6151764095f3f97b3275
>> > c31b5c9c806b1fbdc9e98885d897664a0d482989
>> > e7aecd327d80b2f156b54769013aaccb2a20645a
>> > 8efa5d7d6ad307ae2d220def37ca89594062c40d
>> > 4aa5d783c9e1c72e4950ff34f388077ccecac74a
>> > e5b046d86fac609f636d127a38de94a175c7e83b
>> > 132b1c3ee38ea6fa0501004fd0f19acb554e5a44
>> > aeae4ac9090462ea38387dcdbac4f01b944af6a4
>> >
>> > Most of those look fairly harmless so long as you don't define
>> > CONFIG_ATHEROS_AR231X. Just to narrow things down...if you only revert
>> > the first 8 (i.e. leave aeae4ac alone), do you still have problems?
>> > Or does it still "stabilize"?
>> >
>> > That patch converts the driver to the generic DMA API. It seems
>> > OK at first glance, but I suspect it is the only one likely to be
>> > effecting your situation.
>> >
>> > John
>> > --
>> > John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you
>> >
linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.
>> >
>>
>> Before jumping to another problem, I had a quick look into the
>> appropriate Kconfig file, as you say I have not CONFIG_ATHEROS_AR231X
>> set and that's why AHB support is not selected/built, instead
>>
>> CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/pci.o
>>
>> is built.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I can't cleanly revert. Sorry, I can't help.
>
> I don't quite understand -- you said you were reverting them before,
> but now I ask you to revert one _less_ patch (i.e. the last one to
> be reverted anyway) and you can't do it?
>
> John
> --
> John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you
>
linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.
>
