Bug#611946: Freezes apparently caused by ath9k

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

(resending to the right bug number.  Sorry for the noise.)
Hi Tony,

Tony Houghton wrote:

> I've reassigned this bug to the latest unstable kernel because that's
> affected too. I think the problem is caused by the ath9k driver because
> any attempt to disable wireless or even disconnect usually causes
> similar crashes.
[...]
> 2.6.32 from squeeze does not have this problem, but I've tried Ubuntu
> Maverick which has kernel 2.6.35 and that exhibits similar symptoms. I
> think I should report this upstream but I don't know the best way
> to do that.

See <http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Support>.

What is very helpful if you have time is

 1) describe the symptoms on the linux-wireless mailing list
 2) grab the kernel source:

	git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

 3) bisect:

	git bisect start
	git bisect good v2.6.32
	git bisect bad v2.6.35
	make localmodconfig
	make deb-pkg
	... install the resulting .deb, reboot, try it, and then ...
	git bisect good;	# if it works
	git bisect bad;	# if it doesn't work

 4) let the linux-wireless people know which turned out to be the
    "first bad commit".

Hope that helps,
Jonathan