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Comment 32 for bug 356768

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Luis R. Rodriguez (mcgrof) wrote : Re: [Bug 356768] Re: ath5k driver hangs periodically, please include trivial patch in kernel

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:43 PM, shamwow <email address hidden> wrote:
> Okay I think applying Bob's patch and recompiling ath5k kernel module
> solved my system stability problem.  No lockups (kernel panics) since I
> changed to the custom module.  Someone needs to add this to the mainline
> linux kernel release, this is ridiculous that Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10
> is shipping without sanity checks on ath5k
>
> failwhale@failwhale-desktop:~$ uptime
>  22:39:04 up 1 day,  8:27,  2 users,  load average: 0.87, 1.14, 1.70
> failwhale@failwhale-desktop:~$

Ubuntu 9.10 uses a kernel that is deprecated, the 2.6.31 kernel no
longer gets stable updates.

  Luis