Doing ifconfig athX down/ifconfig athX up several times provokes kernel crash. See http://madwifi.org/ticket/914. But if ath_hal_phydisable() is skipped - I observe NO CRASH whatsoever ... :\ Weird. Signed-off-by: Mindaugas Kriaučiūnas Signed-off-by: Žilvinas Valinskas Index: madwifi-ng-trunk/ath/if_ath.c =================================================================== --- madwifi-ng-trunk.orig/ath/if_ath.c 2006-10-16 17:40:50.000000000 +0300 +++ madwifi-ng-trunk/ath/if_ath.c 2006-10-18 16:17:32.000000000 +0300 @@ -1997,7 +1997,10 @@ ath_draintxq(sc); if (!sc->sc_invalid) { ath_stoprecv(sc); + + /* XXX: this helps to avoid crashes on ifconfig down/up ath_hal_phydisable(ah); + */ } else sc->sc_rxlink = NULL; ath_beacon_free(sc); /* XXX needed? */