Return-path: Received: from mail.deathmatch.net ([70.167.247.36]:3247 "EHLO mail.deathmatch.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751661AbYKPFz7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:55:59 -0500 Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:55:14 -0500 From: Bob Copeland To: Dan McGee Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Michael Buesch Subject: Re: Kernel oops when loading ath5k from compat-wireless in 2.6.27 Message-ID: <20081116055514.GB14126@hash.localnet> (sfid-20081116_065602_065979_D5F22D34) References: <449c10960811132146s40aef6c6ue8dfeef5ba29812a@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890811132217k160db63ch77e7d03c38e81d5f@mail.gmail.com> <449c10960811151811s32fdd2b6p361d2ec9dd674fcc@mail.gmail.com> <449c10960811151838m3fcae118n65139be735c10665@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <449c10960811151838m3fcae118n65139be735c10665@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:38:32PM -0600, Dan McGee wrote: > I should clarify here- the real bug was when trying to access > '->driver', as we got the 00000001 poison pointer returned (this is a > poison value, right?). Not sure it's a poison, but it's definitely a bad value. The good news is that with your config and compat-wireless I can easily reproduce this now. So hopefully I'll be able to pin something down soon. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com