James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi Adric, > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 01:23:31PM -0500, Adric Blake wrote: >> In the time between Linux 4.15-rc8 and -rc9, my wireless driver, b43, >> would no longer load automatically. When I modprobe the b43 (and ssb) >> modules, the device still didn't appear in NetworkManager. Comparing >> the kernel logs between working (4.14.16-lts) and nonworking (4.15) >> kernels reveals that there is zero output from the ssb module, and no >> devices recognized by the b43 driver: > > ... > >> I had my suspicions at this point, but I had a lull and decided to >> bisect it anyways. >> I bisected to this "first bad commit:" >> >> commit 58eae1416b804d900014d84feadda7195007cc30 >> Author: James Hogan <jhogan@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Mon Jan 15 21:17:14 2018 +0000 >> >> ssb: Disable PCI host for PCI_DRIVERS_GENERIC > > Yes, really sorry about that and thanks for going to the effort of > bisecting. There is a patch here: > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10185397/ > > which is applied to linux-next as commit > a9e6d44ddeccd3522670e641f1ed9b068e746ff7, and is tagged for stable, > though I've just noticed the stable email address is incorrect... I'll > make sure it gets applied to the 4.15 stable branch though as soon as > I notice its merged. The commit is now in v4.16-rc1. -- Kalle Valo
