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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg Kroah-Hartman [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 7:12 PM
>To: Nicolas Ferre
>Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Aditya Shankar - I16078; Ganesh Krishna - I00112; luisbg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: staging: wilc1000: kernel Oops while opening the device
>
>On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 02:06:02PM +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> While using the wilc1000 driver with latest 4.8-rc7, I have 
>> difficulties to open the device and actually use it as I have this 
>> kernel Oops right after the loading of the firmware (wilc1003_firmware.bin).
>> 
>> If I revert back the driver to its 
>> b9811891a9f60ca9c314dcab3244c65930c4cf37 state, it works okay. I did 
>> this because I tend to think that it might be related to the latest move on this driver to "completion" or "work queues".
>> It seems to be a regression from 4.7.
>
>Ick, not good at all.
>
>Any chance you can run 'git bisect' to see if you can find the offending patch?
>
>I thought the maintainers were testing this driver over time :(

>thanks,
>
>greg k-h

Ick indeed. Maintainers are on it full time. Thank you very much for the flag. While I am only reporting activity, hope to have results soon.
Regards,
ganesh k 



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