Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:3356 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933770AbXCUTOW (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:14:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:59:00 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Larry Finger Cc: Andrew Morton , Zan Lynx , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Michael Buesch , bcm43xx devel Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 Message-ID: <20070321185900.GC3801@tuxdriver.com> References: <20070319205623.299d0378.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1174433034.62033.16.camel@localhost> <20070320223643.d8cbc3f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4601761F.4000302@lwfinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4601761F.4000302@lwfinger.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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 -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com