Re: Kernel panic with zd1211rw and today's compat-wireless

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Sunday 22 March 2009 23:04:21 Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 04:09:26PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Is it possible that the skb->cb (where I guess the RX status and TX status
> > are stored) is getting corrupted after the skb got queued by the driver for
> > processing in the RX or TX status tasklet?
> 
> Hmm, that's an interesting possibility, and yeah that is stored in cb, for
> TX at least:

Ok, at least for the RX path the corruption was in the b43 driver.
See "[PATCH] b43: fix b43_plcp_get_bitrate_idx_ofdm return type".

So there's probably no cb corruption going on...

> >    struct ieee80211_tx_info *info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
> 
> I did debug it on the driver side and the rates I was sending back to the 
> RC were fine.  
> 



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Greetings, Michael.