From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:2615 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752801AbYE1T2X (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2008 15:28:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:12:24 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Michael Buesch Cc: Stefano Brivio , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43legacy: Fix controller restart crash Message-ID: <20080528191224.GB25770@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20080528_212842_407066_ECA9ABF7) References: <200805221706.37185.mb@bu3sch.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200805221706.37185.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 05:06:36PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > This fixes a kernel crash on rmmod, in the case where the controller > was restarted before doing the rmmod. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch > > --- > > Stefano, this is untested. Please test by doing > echo -n 1 >/debug/b43legacy/phy*/restart > rmmod b43legacy > It should not crash anymore at the rmmod (actually the restart should > also hang in b43legacy, as it has a deadlock, which this patch also fixes). Anyone get a chance to test this one? John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com