Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:32:08 +0100
From: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [p54]: oops in p54_rx
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On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 04:24:21PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> On Monday 08 December 2008 15:47:27 Manuel Lauss wrote:
> [...]
> > > > But what I can do is to stop the driver from oopsing...
> > > >  
> > > > I guess a check to see if the device mode is set to something else than 
> > > > "NL80211_IFTYPE_UNSPECIFIED" and in p54_rx(_data) should prevent the oops.
> > > > maybe we I should add a hex_dump as well.
> > > 
> > > patch attached... tell me what it does on your dev.
> > 
> > Thank you,  but I think the card is faulty... it doesn't work even on winxp
> > ("device cannot be started Code 10"-error).  Do you still want me to test
> > the patch?
> Did you try the card in the same system with 4Gb and with the original SMC driver?
> Well, either way... you could "confirm" that doesn't crash anymore ;-).

Tested on another machine with 1gb ram. It doesn't crash anymore.  If you're
still interested, the log output is here  http://mlau.at/files/p54log

Thanks!
	Manuel Lauss