Return-path: Received: from mail-tul01m020-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:57580 "EHLO mail-tul01m020-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752196Ab2AURCr convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:02:47 -0500 Received: by obcva7 with SMTP id va7so1778890obc.19 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:02:47 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4F19262B.4000102@broadcom.com> References: <4F19262B.4000102@broadcom.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:02:47 +0100 Message-ID: (sfid-20120121_180250_808587_A3CE8F1C) Subject: Re: brcmsmac broken with 3.2 From: Francis Moreau To: Arend van Spriel Cc: Alwin Beukers , Roland Vossen , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , Julian Calaby , Johannes Berg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote: > > Did this problem occur with plain 3.2 kernel. I checked out the v3.2 > mainline tag and looked at line 2979:ieee80211_rx(): > 2975: ? ? ? ?/* > 2976: ? ? ? ? * The same happens when we're not even started, > 2977: ? ? ? ? * but that's worth a warning. > 2978: ? ? ? ? */ > 2979: ? ? ? ?if (WARN_ON(!local->started)) > 2980: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?goto drop; > >>> ieee80211_rx+0x91b/0x9e0 [mac80211]() >>> [36370.370775] Hardware name: Vostro 3500 >>> [36370.370870] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G ? ? ? ?WC O 3.2.0 > > I guess brcmsmac is sending up a received wireless packet to mac80211 > and it is dropped, because mac80211 did not yet call the start callback. > It is just a warning so if you are having problems connecting to an AP > you may have other issues. After this warning I can't connect to an AP anymore, I have to unload and reload the brcmsmac module. Thanks for your time. -- Francis