wi hostap recently screwed.

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Tue Sep 23 21:11:09 PDT 2003


> Obviously I don't understand enough about locks.  A recent (last week
> or two) checkin screwed the wi driver such that it panic's saying that
> ic_nodelock is used recursively first in line 525 and then in 547 of
> net80211/ieee80211_node.c.
> 
> On my own, I tried chaging line 87 to mtx_init() the lock with
> MTX_RECURSE, but this causes the kernel to panic on line 472 saying
> something about trying to spin.
> 
> I'm relatively certain that this is all only caused by hostap mode
> ... it doesn't appear to happen on my laptop (also running this week's
> current).
> 
> ... Now, that said, some of my disassociation problems on the laptop
> seem to have cured (associating with other access points) ...
> 
> So I need help with this really large bug in the wi code.

Please send me your config.  I'll deal with it.

	Sam



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