Re: kernel oops on wireless-testing

["Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 07/10/2012 01:09 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 13:01 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>> Recently I get a kernel oops in nightly test on the wireless-testing
>> tree (see below). This is on 3.5-rc4 kernel based on following commit:
>>
>> commit a5b846deb890fbea72267e4e7d98f8f022959d14
>> Merge: 1532e30 bf52592
>> Author: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
>> Date:   Wed Jun 27 16:15:29 2012 -0400
>>
>>     Merge branch 'master' of
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linvi
>>
>> Can this be expected (eg. recent change in struct wiphy) ? I will built
>> a new kernel from wireless-testing and see if that helps.
> 
> Why would you expect this? Are you running new modules on an old kernel?
> 
> johannes
> 
> 

Yes. I do not built the whole kernel upon wireless-testing update. So I
generally built cfg80211, mac80211, and our own drivers. That mostly
works except that (part of) wext can only be built in-kernel.

btw, moving to a newer kernel worked for me so it is a user issue. Sorry
for the noise.

Gr. AvS