From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:39013 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933351AbXCUSfG (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:35:06 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Larry Finger Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:34:28 +0100 Cc: Andrew Morton , Zan Lynx , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx devel , John Linville References: <20070319205623.299d0378.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070320223643.d8cbc3f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4601761F.4000302@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: <4601761F.4000302@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200703211934.28465.mb@bu3sch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- Greetings Michael.