Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:56:44 +0000 (GMT)
From: Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6.23.9] hostap_plx locks up PC when reading PCI I/O memory
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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--- Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> It might be interesting to see what value of `i' is causing it to fall over.

I tried unrolling the loop, but a single byte read for i = 0 is enough to lock things up.

> Did any earlier version of the 2.6 kernel work OK?

Unfortunately, I don't know. I swapped this card out of the old 2.4.x machine into a machine
already running Fedora 7. The card works when I put it back into the 2.4 machine too, so it's not
a hardware problem with the card.

So I suppose the next step would be trying a linux 2.6.0 kernel? Or was hostap included in the
kernel later than that?

Cheers,
Chris


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