Comment 4 for bug 736171

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Lukasz Olszewski (olszewskil) wrote : Re: ath: Failed to stop TX DMA in 100 msec after killing last frame

This bug also affects me making network operations practically impossible. lscpi for net below:

Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Device e030
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
 Region 0: Memory at e8e00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: ath9k
 Kernel modules: ath9k

and the syslog:

 kernel: [ 5012.743836] ath: Failed to stop TX DMA!
 kernel: [ 5012.755839] ath: DMA failed to stop in 10 ms AR_CR=0x00000024 AR_DIAG_SW=0x42000020
 kernel: [ 5012.755845] ath: Could not stop RX, we could be confusing the DMA engine when we start RX up
 kernel: [ 5012.767458] ath: DMA failed to stop in 10 ms AR_CR=0x00000024 AR_DIAG_SW=0x42000020
 kernel: [ 5019.780925] ath: Failed to stop TX DMA in 100 msec after killing last frame
 kernel: [ 5019.780955] ath: Failed to stop TX DMA!
 kernel: [ 5059.803900] ath: Failed to stop TX DMA in 100 msec after killing last frame