Re: [REGRESSION]: bcma: fix handling of big addrl

From: Hauke Mehrtens
Date: Tue Sep 17 2013 - 16:02:47 EST


On 09/17/2013 09:11 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> The above commit causes a regression for me.
>
> Booting with initcall_debug shows that bcma_modinit never returns:
>
> calling bcma_modinit+0x0/0x33 [bcma] @ 210
> bcma-pci-bridge 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> bcma: bus0: Found chip with id 0xA8D8, rev 0x01 and package 0x08
>
> Which means that (obviously) my wireless nic doesnot work (doe not
> show up in "ip addr"). Moreover, the kernel hangs during reboot and
> I'm forced to do a hard-reboot.
>
> Reverting the offending commit on top of 3.12-rc1 fixes the problem.

Hi,

There is already a patch in wireless-testing on its way into linux tree:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git/commit/?id=167fef2a4dce0fa9b9b847bac91cd06c191396d2

Hauke

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