On 06/04/2013 12:56 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
(John, note that this commit is part of the pull request you sent to Dave today) Arend, Commit 9390ace "brcmfmac: free net device when registration fails" causes a regression. I had the BCM4330 firmware present in my root fs, whereas my HW is a BCM4329. With this patch applied, I get a kernel panic on boot. With it reverted, I see that no issues of that nature. This is true in next-20130531 (and also 5/30 and 6/1 but not earlier). A bisect of Linus's tree followed by a merge of John's wireless pull request from today pointed at this same commit.
Thanks, Stephen I will look into this.
Related: Since the two hardware require different firmware, I wonder why the driver doesn't use a firmware filename that encodes the HW device ID instead of using the same name for all HW. This means that when I move my SD card between development systems, I have to copy different firmware over the top. That's a little painful...
I agree that for development switching cards it is kinda awkward and I have been fooled by it as well. We may want to change or if your itch is annoying enough feel free to send a patch for it ;-)
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