Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:41468 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753055AbXEZQba (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 12:31:30 -0400 From: Uwe Bugla To: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: BUG in 2.6.22-rc2-mm1: NIC module b44.c broken (Broadcom 4400) Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 18:26:06 +0200 References: <20070524195616.234280@gmx.net> <20070526091309.0af20971.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200705261821.16355.mb@bu3sch.de> In-Reply-To: <200705261821.16355.mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Andrew Morton , Maximilian Engelhardt , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "linux-kernel" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200705261826.06796.uwe.bugla@gmx.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am Samstag, 26. Mai 2007 18:21 schrieben Sie: > On Saturday 26 May 2007 18:13:09 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > I already tried your -mm kernel, but it crashes on my machine > > > for other reasons. (Yeah, I should look into them, too :P ) > > > > err, please do. Just the oops trace would be a start. > > Yes, I will look into it. I think it was related to my > onboard RTL networking chip. When trying to bring it down, > it oopses the machine. But I'm not sure what happens exactly, yet. > I'll take a look at it. > > > > Andrew, is it possible that the breakage was introduced in the > > > merge process somehow? Didn't the patch apply cleanly? Are there > > > other changes to b44 I should know about in your tree? > > > > Only git-wireless.net modifies b44.c but if we're having IRQ assignment > > problems then we'd need to look elsewhere. > > I think we don't have IRQ assignment problems. Uwe simply disabled > b44-PCI support in his first bugreport (I guess). Yes! > So there was > no b44-PCI driver loaded. Well, not exactly: b44 plus ssb were in fact produced, but did not function, at least in that case, due to the misleading / superficial information in the Kconfig menu...... > Later on he said that it does magically work now... NO! Later on I said I did chose that b44-PCI driver, got the right dependencies, and there was no interrupt problem at all. So the driver got loaded as expected but simply did not work at all...... Cheers Uwe