From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>,
Linux Wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Subject: Re: Oops in ieee80211_register_hw
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:01:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704292101.45018.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704272026.11196.flamingice@sourmilk.net>
On Saturday 28 April 2007 02:26:06 Michael Wu wrote:
> On Friday 27 April 2007 17:37, Jiri Benc wrote:
> > has anyone an idea what's going on here?
> >
> > How to reproduce:
> > 1. modprobe bcm43xx_mac80211
> > 2. plug in my cardbus bcm4318 card
> > (note that if I swap these two steps, the oops doesn't occur)
> >
> > By adding debug printks, I located the place where the null dereference
> > happens. Please note that I have Michael Wu's latest patches applied.
> > It's in
> > name = wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy)->driver->name;
> > and wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy) is NULL.
> >
> I've attached a patch. I don't have the hardware so I don't know if it'll
> work, but it seems right to me.
Thanks for that patch. It's almost right.
I committed the right fix.
http://bu3sch.de/gitweb?p=wireless-dev.git;a=commitdiff;h=7371ae7ba51fb380681584c9132540ff5a86604a
--
Greetings Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-29 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-27 21:37 Oops in ieee80211_register_hw Jiri Benc
2007-04-28 0:26 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-28 12:31 ` Jiri Benc
2007-04-29 19:01 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
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