From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Finger Subject: Re: [OOPS] bcm43xx oops on 2.6.20-rc1 on x86_64 Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:45:21 -0600 Message-ID: <4596EC01.3060508@lwfinger.net> References: <20061230192104.GB20714@stusta.de> <4596D8DE.2030408@lwfinger.net> <20061230213245.GD20714@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Aaron Sethman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com Return-path: Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.116]:60464 "EHLO mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030359AbWL3WpG (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:45:06 -0500 To: Adrian Bunk In-Reply-To: <20061230213245.GD20714@stusta.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:23:42PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: >> Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:15:28PM -0500, Aaron Sethman wrote: >>>> Just was loading the bcm43xx module and got the following oops. Note that >>>> this card is one of the newer PCI-E cards. If any other info is needed >>>> let me know. >>> Is this issue still present in 2.6.10-rc2-git1? >>> >>> If yes, was 2.6.19 working fine? >> ... >> >> Any oops involving wireless extensions is due to 2.6.20-rc1 and -rc2 not having the fix for softmac >> that is necessitated by the 2.6.20 changes in the work structure. > > "Any oops" are very strong words. Yes - but I have seen at least 7 or 8 different occurrences of that bug since the patch was first made available on Dec. 10, and I have seen no bcm43xx oopses from any other cause. > It wouldn't be the first time that we have several similar bug reports, > and it turns out that one is for a completely different issue... > > That's why I asked for testing with 2.6.20-rc2-git1 that includes the > two ieee80211softmac patches. I have been chasing a sound-card issue today and missed that -git1 was out. That version fixes the two outstanding 2.6.20 softmac issues. Larry