From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: [PATCH] bcm43xx-d80211: Init, shutdown and restart fixes Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:30:25 +0200 Message-ID: <200608151730.26255.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <200608142132.25398.mb@bu3sch.de> <44E1E6E6.9000804@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Johannes Berg , bcm43xx-dev-0fE9KPoRgkgATYTw5x5z8w@public.gmane.org Return-path: To: Larry Finger In-Reply-To: <44E1E6E6.9000804-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: bcm43xx-dev-bounces-0fE9KPoRgkgATYTw5x5z8w@public.gmane.org Errors-To: bcm43xx-dev-bounces-0fE9KPoRgkgATYTw5x5z8w@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 15 August 2006 17:23, Larry Finger wrote: > Michael, > > Michael Buesch wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > Please apply this to wireless-dev. > > > > -- > > > > This fixes various bugs in the init and shutdown code > > that would lead to lockups and crashes. > > This is best reproducable by receiving a timeout from > > the netdev watchdog. > > Is a similar bug likely to be the cause of the netdev watchdog timeouts in > bcm43xx-softmac? If so, will there be a patch for wireless-2.6? I don't know why the _timeouts_ itself happen, but maybe the lockup and crash bugs are in bcm43xx-softmac, too. I think it should be actually trivial to port this to bcm43xx-softmac. Care to do this, Larry? -- Greetings Michael.