From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de
Cc: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix handling of failure to create debugfs directory
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:16:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708081316.38183.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B95C75.8060404@lwfinger.net>
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 08:02:29 Larry Finger wrote:
> Larry Finger wrote:
> > Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >> This can happen if CONFIG_BCM43XX_MAC80211_DEBUG is enabled, but
> >> CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is not.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
> >> ---
> >>
> > With this patch installed, and the DEBUG configuration set as above, I get a kernel panic on an
> > x86_64 SMP system. The reason for the panic scrolled off the screen, but the complete stack dump
> > (hand copied) is as follows:
> >
> > lock_acquire+0x85/0x31
> > bcm43xx_mac80211: bcm43xx_debugfs_log_txstat+0x5a/099
> > _spin_lock+0x25/0x31
>
> Ignore the noise above. I had failed to get the right patch. The crash confirms the problem
> _without_ the patch. Getting it in properly fixes the problem
>
> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Yeah, I just noticed that, too :)
So, I applied it to my queue and it will soon go upstream.
http://bu3sch.de/patches/wireless-dev/LATEST/patches/
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-08 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-08 5:17 [PATCH] Fix handling of failure to create debugfs directory Pavel Roskin
2007-08-08 5:52 ` Larry Finger
2007-08-08 6:02 ` Larry Finger
2007-08-08 11:16 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-08-08 10:38 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-08 9:04 ` Michael Buesch
2007-08-08 12:04 ` Larry Finger
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