diff options
| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-09-25 01:21:56 +0200 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-09-25 01:21:56 +0200 |
| commit | 8c65859473baee85e806ec8ebc0ff5e3a181969e (patch) | |
| tree | 3945080d7f1ba0e61c4ecc79a1e63ad3ad841b97 /drivers | |
| parent | netfilter: ip6t_{hbh,dst}: Rejects not-strict mode on rule insertion (diff) | |
| parent | ath9k: disable MIB interrupts to fix interrupt storm (diff) | |
| download | linux-8c65859473baee85e806ec8ebc0ff5e3a181969e.tar.xz linux-8c65859473baee85e806ec8ebc0ff5e3a181969e.zip | |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c index c04959357bda..87e37bc39145 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c @@ -795,6 +795,12 @@ int ath_open(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath9k_channel *initial_chan) if (ah->ah_caps.hw_caps & ATH9K_HW_CAP_HT) sc->sc_imask |= ATH9K_INT_CST; + /* Note: We disable MIB interrupts for now as we don't yet + * handle processing ANI, otherwise you will get an interrupt + * storm after about 7 hours of usage making the system unusable + * with huge latency. Once we do have ANI processing included + * we can re-enable this interrupt. */ +#if 0 /* * Enable MIB interrupts when there are hardware phy counters. * Note we only do this (at the moment) for station mode. @@ -802,6 +808,7 @@ int ath_open(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath9k_channel *initial_chan) if (ath9k_hw_phycounters(ah) && ((sc->sc_opmode == ATH9K_M_STA) || (sc->sc_opmode == ATH9K_M_IBSS))) sc->sc_imask |= ATH9K_INT_MIB; +#endif /* * Some hardware processes the TIM IE and fires an * interrupt when the TIM bit is set. For hardware |