Re: BUG in 2.6.22-rc2-mm1: NIC module b44.c broken (Broadcom 4400)

Michael Buesch
2007-05-26T18:03:33Z

On Saturday 26 May 2007 19:24:33 Uwe Bugla wrote:
> Am Samstag, 26. Mai 2007 19:18 schrieben Sie:
> > On Saturday 26 May 2007 19:04:04 Uwe Bugla wrote:
> > > Yes, sure! But the help text is very unlucky and humble, and it is not
> > > clear enough in the sense of being distinctive enough, just clear and
> > > comprehensive.
> >
> > Why don't you simply submit a patch to change the helptext then?
> > I'm not sure why you refuse to DO anything about the "mess", but
> > instead keep poking me that I am responsible somehow to fix it up
> > for you...
>
> I need exception examples for doing so. What are the exception examples?
>
> Apart from that you have don nothing except than guessing around.

Admit it. You don't know how debugging is done in the real world.
Debugging _IS_ guessing around.

> Now here comes the LAST proof that your code is buggy:
>
> A. It's not mm-implementation
> B. It's not user behaviour or fault
> C. It's not an ACPI issue
>
> BUT ONE AND ONLY:
>
> D. It's your code that is buggy, without any doubt!

Blahblah. Did you even read the mail I CCed to you?
It "proves" (to use your wording) the exact opposite.

> OK, went Andrew's path: patched 2.6.22-rc3 with wireless tree:
>
> Result: The NIC driver b44 and ssb are loaded correctly, but refuse to work
> (no network communication possible).

Ok, please take git and get my development tree and try with that:

git clone http://bu3sch.de/git/wireless-dev.git

It's based on 2.6.22-rc1 and it works fine for me.

> dmesg:
>
...

Ok, config and dmesg looks OK to me, now.

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Greetings Michael.