Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

From: John W. Linville
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 15:14:58 EST


On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:14:55PM -0500, 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:

FWIW, that patch is in my tree as of yesterday. Presumably it should
be in the next -mm.

John
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