Return-path: Received: from mfe1.polimi.it ([131.175.12.23]:54886 "EHLO polimi.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751188AbXLIWKd (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:10:33 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:06:52 +0100 From: Stefano Brivio To: Chris Rankin Cc: Dan Williams , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.23.9] hostap_plx locks up PC when reading PCI I/O memory Message-ID: <20071209230652.7156fe17@morte> (sfid-20071209_221036_827776_D4747045) In-Reply-To: <587622.50680.qm@web52902.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <1193657365.19938.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <587622.50680.qm@web52902.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 19:41:58 +0000 (GMT) Chris Rankin wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently been having trouble loading the hostap_plx 802.11b wireless > networking driver, and this evening I managed to narrow the problem down > to these lines of code by copying code from hostap_plx into a "test > driver" until the test driver also locked the PC up: > > /* read CIS; it is in even offsets in the beginning of attr_mem */ > for (i = 0; i < CIS_MAX_LEN; i++) > cis[i] = readb(attr_mem + 2 * i); Not a fix, but if you load the module with ignore_cis = 1, it should work. -- Ciao Stefano