Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

From: John W. Linville
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 15:14:43 EST


On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:34:28PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> 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.

That's "ssb-ohci: Completely disable the driver on non-embedded
systems", also in wireless-dev as of yesterday.

Thanks,

John
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