Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:41374 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756640AbcISNl4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:41:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:42:02 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Nicolas Ferre Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Aditya Shankar , Ganesh Krishna , luisbg@osg.samsung.com Subject: Re: staging: wilc1000: kernel Oops while opening the device Message-ID: <20160919134201.GA25769@kroah.com> (sfid-20160919_154200_823701_C9CB31DE) References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 02:06:02PM +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote: > Hi all, > > While using the wilc1000 driver with latest 4.8-rc7, I > have difficulties to open the device and actually use it as I have > this kernel Oops right after the loading of the firmware (wilc1003_firmware.bin). > > If I revert back the driver to its b9811891a9f60ca9c314dcab3244c65930c4cf37 state, > it works okay. I did this because I tend to think that it might be related to the latest > move on this driver to "completion" or "work queues". > It seems to be a regression from 4.7. Ick, not good at all. Any chance you can run 'git bisect' to see if you can find the offending patch? I thought the maintainers were testing this driver over time :( thanks, greg k-h