From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966190AbXDGRqh (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:46:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933634AbXDGRqh (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:46:37 -0400 Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:35260 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933630AbXDGRqg (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 13:46:36 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Larry Finger Subject: Re: Kernel NULL pointer when loading bcm43xx-mac80211 =?iso-8859-1?q?with=09fwpostfix_=3D?= ".fw4" Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 19:45:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Johannes Berg , bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, "linux-kernel, " References: <4616DF5A.7040800@lwfinger.net> <1175958655.8459.8.camel@johannes.berg> <4617D862.7010202@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: <4617D862.7010202@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704071945.30680.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 07 April 2007 19:44, Larry Finger wrote: > Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 15:51 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > >> On Saturday 07 April 2007 02:01, Larry Finger wrote: > >>> The current mb and wireless-dev git trees both get a kernel NULL pointer in "param_set_copystring" > >>> when modprobe'ing bcm43xx-mac80211 with a line of 'options bcm43xx-mac80211 fwpostfix = ".fw4"' in > >>> /etc/modprobe.conf.local. This construction used to work and still does for bcm43xx-softmac. I > >>> compared the code between the two versions and cannot see any real differences. Any suggestions? > >> Uhm, fwpostfix=.fw4 works fine for me when I pass it to modprobe. > > > > I use > > $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/bcm43xx > > options bcm43xx-mac80211 fwpostfix=-v4 > > options bcm43xx_mac80211 fwpostfix=-v4 > > options bcm43xx fwpostfix=-v3 > > > > and it works great. > > My bad. As shown above, I had white space around the equals - a no-no. Removing it fixed the > problem. The examples both of you showed gave me the clue. Hm, probably a bug in the modparam subsystem, though. I'd say it shouldn't crash, at least. -- Greetings Michael.