From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mms1.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.17]:4986 "EHLO mms1.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753079Ab2GJMiW (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:38:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4FFC2235.5080801@broadcom.com> (sfid-20120710_143826_811089_D9226F2C) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:38:13 +0200 From: "Arend van Spriel" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Johannes Berg" cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: kernel oops on wireless-testing References: <4FFC0BA2.3060107@broadcom.com> ( sfid-20120710_130212_744547_93D9E56B) <1341918560.4475.10.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> In-Reply-To: <1341918560.4475.10.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/10/2012 01:09 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 13:01 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> Recently I get a kernel oops in nightly test on the wireless-testing >> tree (see below). This is on 3.5-rc4 kernel based on following commit: >> >> commit a5b846deb890fbea72267e4e7d98f8f022959d14 >> Merge: 1532e30 bf52592 >> Author: John W. Linville >> Date: Wed Jun 27 16:15:29 2012 -0400 >> >> Merge branch 'master' of >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linvi >> >> Can this be expected (eg. recent change in struct wiphy) ? I will built >> a new kernel from wireless-testing and see if that helps. > > Why would you expect this? Are you running new modules on an old kernel? > > johannes > > Yes. I do not built the whole kernel upon wireless-testing update. So I generally built cfg80211, mac80211, and our own drivers. That mostly works except that (part of) wext can only be built in-kernel. btw, moving to a newer kernel worked for me so it is a user issue. Sorry for the noise. Gr. AvS