Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.161.174]:53669 "EHLO mail-gx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753803Ab0HQBCF (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:02:05 -0400 Received: by gxk23 with SMTP id 23so2160788gxk.19 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:02:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C69DF79.2020900@lwfinger.net> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:01:45 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Vine CC: linux-wireless , b43-dev Subject: Re: [RFT] BCM4312 users with DMA errors, please test! References: <20100816204154.5100b604@boulder.homenet> <20100816233544.40f0e1d4@boulder.homenet> <4C69CF85.2020809@lwfinger.net> <20100817010923.589d8063@boulder.homenet> <20100817011455.4919cfbb@boulder.homenet> In-Reply-To: <20100817011455.4919cfbb@boulder.homenet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/16/2010 07:14 PM, Chris Vine wrote: >> >> I have reproduced it twice. It is definitely the patch, in the sense >> that it happens with the patch included (on two separate tests that I >> have conducted) and never without. >> >> I do not doubt that you do not experience this effect. However, you >> don't experience the DMA bug either. > > Out of interest, which version of the wl module do you have installed, > as I wonder if that makes a difference? (As I said in my e-mail on > this, this problem only occurs if the wl module is available to the > kernel.) My wl came from hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.60.48.36.tar.gz. My kernel is 2.6.36-rc1 from mainline. Very strange that a patch to ssb, which is a module that cannot even load due to being blacklisted, can cause this kind of problem. Are you warm or cold rebooting? Larry