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Re: [PATCH 0/7] brcmfmac: nvram loading and code rework

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On 12 August 2015 at 10:58, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/26/2015 05:40 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>
>> On 20 July 2015 at 19:14, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/19/2015 05:05 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10 July 2015 at 20:31, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This series comprises of following changes:
>>>>> - support NVRAM loading for bcm47xx platform.
>>>>> - revise announced interface combinations and validate against it.
>>>>> - new debugfs entry for msgbuf protocol layer used with PCIe devices.
>>>>> - couple of PCIe fixes.
>>>>> - rework dealing with interface instances.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure which patch has caused this (I applied all of them except
>>>> for the 1st one) but now brcmfmac fails totally:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
>>>>> 00000014
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm afraid I won't be able to spend any more time of this soon, so can
>>>> you try to reproduce this problem, please?
>
>
> You did a warm reboot of the device, right? There seems to be an issue
> because on OpenWrt the brcmfmac is not unloaded upon warm reboot, which
> makes the device unaccessible. Because on OpenWrt the firmware request is
> synchronous (OpenWrt patch on top of upstream brcmfmac) it results in probe
> failing on invalid access making the issue OpenWrt specific. Hante created a
> fix for the warm reboot issue.

I'm not sure about this, it was too long time ago. I'm coming back
home on next Tuesday, so I should be able to work on this again soon.

-- 
Rafał
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