On Wednesday 07 March 2007 21:27, Larry Finger wrote: > If you have a BCM4311 and are seeing an oops that looks like this when loading bcm43xx_mac80211: > > ssb: Switching to ChipCommon core, index 0 > ssb: Switching to PCI-E core, index 3 > ssb: Switching to USB 1.1 Host core, index 2 > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000002d0 RIP: > [<ffffffff8812fcfd>] :usbcore:usb_create_hcd+0x3b/0xe8 > PGD 3e792067 PUD 3ed66067 PMD 0 > Oops: 0002 [1] SMP > ... > > there is a temporary, unofficial patch at > ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/mac80211_usb_problem.patch. Although it works, it attacks the > symptom, not the cause, and will never be adopted into the code. Once a proper fix is applied, it > will no longer be needed. A patch to disable the USB core on non-embedded devices is in my tree now. The actual bug is still there, but nobody (except OpenWRT developers ;) ) should be able to hit it anymore now. :) -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
