Anyone seeing serious network breakage in current Rawhide?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Fri Aug 1 14:03:17 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 09:38 -0400, Michael Solberg wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 07:01 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 08:45 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:57:36 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > 
> > > > There's breakage upstream in wireless-land for all mac80211-based
> > > > drivers (b43, b43-legacy, iwl3945, iwl4965, ath5k, rt2x00, etc) while
> > > > fallout from Dave Miller's multiqueue patches is fixed up.  mac80211
> > > > was incorrectly using the skb->cb field that the multiqueue patches
> > > > are now also using, and that conflict is causing a lot of random
> > > > weirdness.
> > > 
> > > Like not being able to associate with an AP?
> > 
> > Definitely.  That doesn't mean your problem is caused by this upstream
> > breakage, but that's got to get fixed before we could debug the issue at
> > all.
> 
> FWIW I'm also seeing these issues with iwl3945 in
> kernel-2.6.25.10-47.fc8.  Is there an open BZ on this?

That specific kernel version shouldn't be related to the upstream
multiqueue stuff though; only rawhide should be affected here.

Dan





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