Atheros 5212

[Sam Leffler]

Kevin Downey wrote:
> On 8/10/05, Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com> wrote:
> 
>>Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote:
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>>>Sam Leffler wrote:
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>>>>Kevin Downey wrote:
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>>>>>I am running a generic kernel with all the debugging knobs.
>>>>>if I use BitTorrent or Gnutella in X the computer reboots after a few
>>>>>minutes.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>From the console it drops into the debugger deal. But will not give me
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>a crash dump.
>>>>
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> 
> This seems to be fixed. I cvsupped to 6.0beta2 and still had problems.
> Then because I did not know what else to do I recompiled the kernel
> wit h PREEMPTION. Everything seems fine and dandy now...

You should not need to rebuild w/ PREEMPTION.  If there's a problem with 
ath I'd like to know so if you can tell me the steps you used to trigger 
the problem it'd be appreciated.  As I said I'm aware of some issues 
with  unloading if_ath and wlan & co as modules--there is a locking 
assertion that is not satisfied and dynamic references to the cipher 
modules (and also wlan_acl) are not tracked so it's possible to unload 
one module when another still has references to code+data.  I've got 
fixes for all these things but haven't committed them yet.

	Sam