Michael Buesch wrote: > 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. :) Your patch works here. Thanks, Larry - 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
