[Intrepid] SRU: 2.6.27.22 worthy ath9k updates

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Mon May 11 09:16:35 UTC 2009


On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 07:14:45PM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> SRU Justification:
>
> Impact: SMP machines can hang when using PCI based atheros devices (not 
> PCI express).
>
> Fix: Two cherry picks from 2.6.27.22 stable
>
> Testcase: Network traffic on SMP based hosts with Atheros pci based devices
>
> Note: Those have been proposed by Luis (maintainer)

Both of these look sane ... the hardware is broke and needs
serialisation.

ACK

-apw




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