Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030362AbWL3WpI (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:45:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030361AbWL3WpI (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:45:08 -0500 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 Message-ID: <4596EC01.3060508@lwfinger.net> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:45:21 -0600 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Aaron Sethman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com Subject: Re: [OOPS] bcm43xx oops on 2.6.20-rc1 on x86_64 References: <20061230192104.GB20714@stusta.de> <4596D8DE.2030408@lwfinger.net> <20061230213245.GD20714@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20061230213245.GD20714@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1485 Lines: 35 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/