Has ath(4) ever worked one release and not worked another, please poke me..

[Warner Losh]

On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:01 AM, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I've had reports here and there from users who have said ath(4) worked
>> for them in a previous release, and then suddenly stopped working.
>> Either it stopped probing at all during boot, or it would probe but
>> then spit out errors when trying to get allocated resources.
>> 
>> There's been some recent commits to -HEAD which hopefully have
>> resolved a class of problems that cardbus users have seen. But I'd
>> like to know if this has popped up for anyone else.
>> 
>> So, if you're "anyone else", and you've got an example piece of
>> equipment and an ath(4) NIC which used to work and now doesn't, please
>> step forward. Please only do so if you're willing to help diagnose the
>> problem by downloading/compiling/running older kernel images and
>> wrangling verbose boot messages from it all. It's likely going to be
>> time consuming and quite tedious.
>> 
>> I'd like to try and nail whatever lingering issues can be tracked down
>> before 9.0-RELEASE if possible. Yes, this even means for older NICs
>> (ie, the non-11n ones.)
> 
> As described in previous email to -current, part of r222753
> needs to be backed out in order for my cardbus ath to work.

That's not an ath(4) issue, but a cardbus(4) issue.  I'll take care of it after the funeral when I return home, likely next week.  Of course, John can take care of it sooner if he wants.

Warner