Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

[Michael Buesch]

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:14, Larry Finger wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:23:54 -0600 Zan Lynx <zlynx@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >>> Temporarily at
> >>>
> >>>   http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
> >>>
> >>> Will appear later at
> >>>
> >>>   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
> >> First impressions:
> >> Several of the same bugs as rc3-mm*:
> >>       * Freezes immediately if I touch the wlan0 device after loading
> >>         the new Broadcom wireless driver.
> 
> The version of the ssb driver in 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 has a bug that causes a kernel oops if the bcm43xx
> chip contains a USB (dangling) core. This bug has been fixed in Michael Buesch's tree, but
> apparently not yet in Linville's wireless-dev tree. The patch is as follows:
> 
> commit 08531ff130bcc8181d9294a66e25010f48eefb97
> Author: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Mar 7 23:01:08 2007 +0100
> 
>     ssb: Don't freeze unregistered devices.

No, that's a different fix for suspend.

This is the fix:
http://bu3sch.de/gitweb?p=wireless-dev.git;a=commitdiff;h=b87f743f3643ea162892dce0bbc91e6f026a49bf

Pull request was sent to John.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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