From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:58869 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965108AbXBSWav (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:30:51 -0500 Received: from proski by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HJH0e-0003yl-I9 for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:29:24 -0500 Subject: Re: Kernel bug in bcm43xx-d80211 From: Pavel Roskin To: Johannes Berg Cc: Alex Davis , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1171923128.15489.35.camel@johannes.berg> References: <358127.50930.qm@web50203.mail.yahoo.com> <1171923128.15489.35.camel@johannes.berg> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:30:47 -0500 Message-Id: <1171924247.2257.31.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 23:12 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 13:48 -0800, Alex Davis wrote: > > I go the following Oops with the latest wireless-dev git when starting wpa_supplicant: > > > > Feb 19 16:17:42 boss kernel: [ 377.359573] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference > > at virtual address 00000002 > > Probably caused by my recent changes that accidentally broke d80211 > pretty much completely. Patches are on the linux-wireless mailing list. Johannes, would it be possible to commit patches faster, please? Now that I told Michael about git-update-server-info, his changes are downloadable as soon as he makes a commit. wireless-dev.git, on the other hand, is a mess and has been for some time (since Friday, I believe). It is a problem for projects like DadWifi that recommend to use the top of wireless-dev.git. Yes, I know, breakage is unavoidable to a certain degree, but it shouldn't come to the situation when the patches are known, nobody objects, yet the repository stays broken and all newcomers have to be told about the problem. That's not to offend you or anyone. It's just something that would help a lot. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin