On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:34:28PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:14, Larry Finger wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:23:54 -0600 Zan Lynx <zlynx@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >>> Temporarily at > > >>> > > >>> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ > > >>> > > >>> Will appear later at > > >>> > > >>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ > > >> First impressions: > > >> Several of the same bugs as rc3-mm*: > > >> * Freezes immediately if I touch the wlan0 device after loading > > >> the new Broadcom wireless driver. > > > > The version of the ssb driver in 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 has a bug that causes a kernel oops if the bcm43xx > > chip contains a USB (dangling) core. This bug has been fixed in Michael Buesch's tree, but > > apparently not yet in Linville's wireless-dev tree. The patch is as follows: > > > > commit 08531ff130bcc8181d9294a66e25010f48eefb97 > > Author: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Wed Mar 7 23:01:08 2007 +0100 > > > > ssb: Don't freeze unregistered devices. > > No, that's a different fix for suspend. > > This is the fix: > http://bu3sch.de/gitweb?p=wireless-dev.git;a=commitdiff;h=b87f743f3643ea162892dce0bbc91e6f026a49bf > > Pull request was sent to John. That's "ssb-ohci: Completely disable the driver on non-embedded systems", also in wireless-dev as of yesterday. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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
