From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mms1.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.17]:3664 "EHLO mms1.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755845Ab3GSNPv (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:15:51 -0400 Message-ID: <51E93BFA.4090808@broadcom.com> (sfid-20130719_151610_462727_759EC916) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:15:38 +0200 From: "Arend van Spriel" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jiri Slaby" cc: brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com, "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "Linux kernel mailing list" Subject: Re: brcm80211: machine freezing hard with rfkill on References: <51E8E482.30505@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <51E8E482.30505@suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/19/13 09:02, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Hi, > > our users report [1] that their machines freeze hard when they have > rfkill turned on and try to run wpa_supplicant or enable network > otherwise. This is with BCM43225 over PCI chip. > > Any ideas what that could be or how to fix this? > > [1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787649 > > thanks, Hi Jiri, Looking in the bug report it seems to be on 3.4 kernel. The commit below is done later. Regards, Arend --------------- commit 82d8eba358badb466a4e988ecabf0668a8d92e9c Author: Piotr Haber Date: Wed Sep 19 22:21:15 2012 +0200 brcmsmac: don't start device when RfKill is engaged This patch fixes a bug when device is being started while RfKill switch is engaged, leading to hang due to partial initialization of hardware. Tested-by: Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman Signed-off-by: Piotr Haber Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel Signed-off-by: John W. Linville