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From: "Christian Schäfer" <schaefer@in.tum.de>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] timer.h
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:44:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B6DF83.8080507@in.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1186382146.21957.40.camel@johannes.berg>

Johannes Berg wrote:
>>> I was able to reproduce the bug without a tainted kernel (i.e. without 
>>> the nvidia binary module). Please let me know if you need more infos.
> What sort of wireless code are you using? That _rtl suffix *looks* like
> some weird vendor driver added _rtl to all function and module names.
> It's definitely not pristine upstream source; looks to me like vendor
> source to that r8187 module you have since the official driver is called
> rtl8187.

The driver source is from [1] (I think it comes from Realtek) and 
patched with the injection-patch taken from the aircrack-project (for 
more background see [2]).

However this issue was before I used the current 2.6.23-rc2 kernel with 
native r8187 support where no such problem occurred untill today.


Chris

[1] ftp://202.65.194.18/cn/wlan/rtl8187_linux_26.1010.zip
[2] http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=r8187


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-06  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <46B1F896.8090005@in.tum.de>
     [not found] ` <46B2EA43.8070305@in.tum.de>
2007-08-03 19:32   ` [BUG] timer.h Andrew Morton
2007-08-06  6:35     ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-06  8:44       ` Christian Schäfer [this message]
2007-08-06  9:12         ` Johannes Berg

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