Re: [REGRESSION] 3.10.{6,7} crashes on network activity

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/21/13 14:38, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Arend van Spriel<arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Felix,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been diving into root causing why brcmsmac can not handle cck
>>>>> fallback rates, because it should. Maybe it is better to flag no cck
>>>>> support
>>>>> and only change brcmsmac.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We have a number of users hitting this in Fedora 18 and 19 now.  We're
>>>> tracking it with https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998080
>>>> and I'm sure we can find people to test easily.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There is already another one (possibly) dealing with the same issue:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=989269
>>>
>>> One of them should probably be flagged as duplicate.
>>>
>>>
>>>> If you have a patch disabling cck in brcmsmac, I'd be happy to build a
>>>> kernel for people.  If that's going to be some time coming, perhaps
>>>> it's better to grab Felix's patch on a temporary basis?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I think it is better to grab Felix's patch because as we both observed
>>> there
>>> is stuff missing in brcmsmac to deal with CCK rates and A-MPDU packet
>>> aggregation.
>>
>>
>> OK, thanks.
>>
>> Felix, are you going to send that upstream?
>
>
> It already has been sent:
> http://mid.gmane.org/1377020634-27064-1-git-send-email-nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Johannes has submitted it to John so it is getting there soon(ish).

Ah, wonderful.  Thanks!

josh
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