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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Cc: zajec5@gmail.com, b43-dev@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, m@bues.ch
Subject: [RFC] b43: fix memory leak on bcm5354
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:57:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F42EBFC.4060307@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329781099-17342-1-git-send-email-hauke@hauke-m.de>

On 02/20/2012 05:38 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> When using the bcm5354 with a recent firmware>= 478.104 it runs into a
> memory very shortly after doing an active scan or any thing else where

You are missing a word after memory.

> packages are send. This was cased by a gpio misconfiguration, the
> firmware triggered the GPIO pins used for buttons on some devices and
> that caused an other driver (OpenWrt diag) listening for these buttons
> to send many user space messages.
> This patch fixes the bug for my devices (Asus WL-520GU) and makes it
> work with firmware 666.2, but I do not know if this patch is correct.
> The spec for this part is out of date:
> http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/GPIO

I just updated the specs based on additional info I found. Everything I see say 
that there are 4 bits for the LEDs. Do you have a source for what you posted below?

>
> GPIO pin layout:
> pin#	name	type
> 0	power	led
> 1	wlan	led
> 2	reset	button
> 3	ses	buttom
>
> related nvram configuration:
> wl0gpio2=11
> wl0gpio3=11
> wl0gpio0=11
> wl0gpio1=0x02
> reset_gpio=2

Larry

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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Cc: zajec5@gmail.com, b43-dev@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, m@bues.ch
Subject: Re: [RFC] b43: fix memory leak on bcm5354
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:57:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F42EBFC.4060307@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329781099-17342-1-git-send-email-hauke@hauke-m.de>

On 02/20/2012 05:38 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> When using the bcm5354 with a recent firmware>= 478.104 it runs into a
> memory very shortly after doing an active scan or any thing else where

You are missing a word after memory.

> packages are send. This was cased by a gpio misconfiguration, the
> firmware triggered the GPIO pins used for buttons on some devices and
> that caused an other driver (OpenWrt diag) listening for these buttons
> to send many user space messages.
> This patch fixes the bug for my devices (Asus WL-520GU) and makes it
> work with firmware 666.2, but I do not know if this patch is correct.
> The spec for this part is out of date:
> http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/GPIO

I just updated the specs based on additional info I found. Everything I see say 
that there are 4 bits for the LEDs. Do you have a source for what you posted below?

>
> GPIO pin layout:
> pin#	name	type
> 0	power	led
> 1	wlan	led
> 2	reset	button
> 3	ses	buttom
>
> related nvram configuration:
> wl0gpio2=11
> wl0gpio3=11
> wl0gpio0=11
> wl0gpio1=0x02
> reset_gpio=2

Larry

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-21  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-20 23:38 [RFC] b43: fix memory leak on bcm5354 Hauke Mehrtens
2012-02-21  0:57 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2012-02-21  0:57   ` Larry Finger
2012-02-21 19:11   ` Hauke Mehrtens
2012-02-21 19:11     ` Hauke Mehrtens
2012-02-21  9:48 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-02-21  9:48   ` Florian Fainelli

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