Return-path: Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:46326 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751314AbeBLPIO (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:08:14 -0500 From: Kalle Valo To: James Hogan Cc: Adric Blake , m@bues.ch, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: B43 driver no longer works in Linux 4.15 (bisected) References: <20180205183324.GD8479@saruman> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:08:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20180205183324.GD8479@saruman> (James Hogan's message of "Mon, 5 Feb 2018 18:33:25 +0000") Message-ID: <87sha68cv9.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (sfid-20180212_160857_718390_6921A4CF) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: James Hogan writes: > Hi Adric, > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 01:23:31PM -0500, Adric Blake wrote: >> In the time between Linux 4.15-rc8 and -rc9, my wireless driver, b43, >> would no longer load automatically. When I modprobe the b43 (and ssb) >> modules, the device still didn't appear in NetworkManager. Comparing >> the kernel logs between working (4.14.16-lts) and nonworking (4.15) >> kernels reveals that there is zero output from the ssb module, and no >> devices recognized by the b43 driver: > > ... > >> I had my suspicions at this point, but I had a lull and decided to >> bisect it anyways. >> I bisected to this "first bad commit:" >> >> commit 58eae1416b804d900014d84feadda7195007cc30 >> Author: James Hogan >> Date: Mon Jan 15 21:17:14 2018 +0000 >> >> ssb: Disable PCI host for PCI_DRIVERS_GENERIC > > Yes, really sorry about that and thanks for going to the effort of > bisecting. There is a patch here: > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10185397/ > > which is applied to linux-next as commit > a9e6d44ddeccd3522670e641f1ed9b068e746ff7, and is tagged for stable, > though I've just noticed the stable email address is incorrect... I'll > make sure it gets applied to the 4.15 stable branch though as soon as > I notice its merged. The commit is now in v4.16-rc1. -- Kalle Valo