On 2013-04-12 6:57 PM, Jan Lühr wrote: > Hallo Felix, > > Am 12.04.2013 um 17:41 schrieb Felix Fietkau: >> On 2013-04-12 10:27 AM, Rougu wrote: >>> while I might be totally wrong with my observation, I still would like >>> to share it, because this issue is lingering for years now and many >>> users are waiting to a solid grip on it to fix it. >>> >>> I'm running several freifunk-nodes in Cologne, Germany, where the >>> firmware contains a ath9k-watchdog that restarts the node, once the >>> failure occurs. One of my nodes is affected in varying intervals of 200 >>> .. 10000 seconds uptime, depending on WLAN activity. >>> >>> (openwrt, attitude adjustment, kernel 3.3.8) >> Please also run a test with OpenWrt trunk and compare stability. > > thanks for providing feedback on this issue. Please keep in mind > that using OpenWRT-trunk is not that easy for node operators of freifunk > networks. I hope Rouge is able to do so - at least we will provide help > in our Freifunk-Community (kbu). I'm also considering backporting mac80211 from trunk to AA after the release (meant for people that build the branch from source, not for a follow-up release).
> I'd really like to discuss this issue at the upcoming Wireless > Community Weekend in Berlin - will I meet you there? Yes, definitely. > At the moment we really do suffer from excessive driver-woos - > causing the need to reboot nodes: > ~ 1450 incidents have been reported within one month > (http://register.kbu.freifunk.net/watchdog_bites). Some nodes are almost > DoS'ed by certain - yet undiscovered - clients. I'm really interested how such a setup behaves with either trunk or a mac80211 backport to AA. Many fixes were added that could not easily be backported to AA because they were too intrusive for the release. - Felix _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel