Re: Regression in 9390ace brcmfmac: free net device when registration fails

["Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>]

On 06/04/2013 12:56 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> (John, note that this commit is part of the pull request you sent to
> Dave today)
>
> Arend,
>
> Commit 9390ace "brcmfmac: free net device when registration fails"
> causes a regression.
>
> I had the BCM4330 firmware present in my root fs, whereas my HW is a
> BCM4329. With this patch applied, I get a kernel panic on boot. With it
> reverted, I see that no issues of that nature. This is true in
> next-20130531 (and also 5/30 and 6/1 but not earlier). A bisect of
> Linus's tree followed by a merge of John's wireless pull request from
> today pointed at this same commit.

Thanks, Stephen

I will look into this.

> Related: Since the two hardware require different firmware, I wonder why
> the driver doesn't use a firmware filename that encodes the HW device ID
> instead of using the same name for all HW. This means that when I move
> my SD card between development systems, I have to copy different
> firmware over the top. That's a little painful...

I agree that for development switching cards it is kinda awkward and I 
have been fooled by it as well. We may want to change or if your itch is 
annoying enough feel free to send a patch for it ;-)

Regards,
Arend