From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:3355 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933766AbXCUTOS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:14:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:00:03 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Michael Buesch Cc: Larry Finger , Andrew Morton , Zan Lynx , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx devel Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 Message-ID: <20070321190003.GD3801@tuxdriver.com> References: <20070319205623.299d0378.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070320223643.d8cbc3f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4601761F.4000302@lwfinger.net> <200703211934.28465.mb@bu3sch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200703211934.28465.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:34:28PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:14, Larry Finger wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:23:54 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: > > > > > >> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >>> Temporarily at > > >>> > > >>> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ > > >>> > > >>> Will appear later at > > >>> > > >>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ > > >> First impressions: > > >> Several of the same bugs as rc3-mm*: > > >> * Freezes immediately if I touch the wlan0 device after loading > > >> the new Broadcom wireless driver. > > > > The version of the ssb driver in 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 has a bug that causes a kernel oops if the bcm43xx > > chip contains a USB (dangling) core. This bug has been fixed in Michael Buesch's tree, but > > apparently not yet in Linville's wireless-dev tree. The patch is as follows: > > > > commit 08531ff130bcc8181d9294a66e25010f48eefb97 > > Author: Michael Buesch > > Date: Wed Mar 7 23:01:08 2007 +0100 > > > > ssb: Don't freeze unregistered devices. > > No, that's a different fix for suspend. > > This is the fix: > http://bu3sch.de/gitweb?p=wireless-dev.git;a=commitdiff;h=b87f743f3643ea162892dce0bbc91e6f026a49bf > > Pull request was sent to John. That's "ssb-ohci: Completely disable the driver on non-embedded systems", also in wireless-dev as of yesterday. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com