Return-Path: Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 07:25:10 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: CIJOML Cc: Michal Piotrowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcel@holtmann.de, bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: OOPS when swsusp/resume when connected to the internet via BT and GPRS Message-ID: <20070507052510.GA4226@stusta.de> References: <200705070005.33834.cijoml@volny.cz> <6bffcb0e0705061534l4cdd2496w8e2e2a0606f17f2e@mail.gmail.com> <200705070704.30361.cijoml@volny.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <200705070704.30361.cijoml@volny.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 07:04:29AM +0200, CIJOML wrote: > Hi Michal, > > my kernel is tainted with madwifi opensource driver :). Only binary part is > ath_hal module, which doesn't have anythink to do with this part of kernel. Any module can change any part of the kernel, e.g. a part of the code executed when loading the ath_hal module could accidentally corrupt a kernel data structure. > Ath_hal is doing RF part of card to protect others tune/transmit in other > frequency than 2.5/5.8GHz (Wifi 802.11a/b/g). > > My kernel is 100% opensource :) That's wrong, the binary-only blob from ath_hal loaded into your kernel is not opensource. > And BTW this happens also with madwifi kernel modules unloaded. An Oops without any external module ever loaded since booting is strongly preferred. > Best regards > > Michal cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed