Subject: Re: 'ath0: device timeout' findings
To: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
From: Sean Boudreau <seanb@qnx.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/29/2007 19:43:54
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 05:34:46PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:57:32PM -0600, jakllsch@kollasch.net wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 02:49:44PM -0600, David Young wrote:
> > > I have experimented a bit with an ath@cardbus and ath@pci to see if
> I
> > > can stop them from printing 'ath0: device timeout'.
> > 
> > Do we know what caused this to start?  This was not
> > an issue when I was running 4.99.22.  On 4.99.34 it is.
> 
> Seems to me there have always been timeouts, but some people see none,
> and others see many.  I just looked through most of my commits between
> 4.99.22 and 4.99.34.  What if you back out these changes I made and
> test?
> 
> cvs rdiff -r1.83 -r1.84 src/sys/dev/ic/ath.c
> cvs rdiff -r1.20 -r1.21 src/sys/dev/ic/athvar.h

I see these infrequently on 3.99.19.

-seanb