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Re: b43 crashes on rmmod (bcm4331)

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Hi Michael,

On 09/06/18 18:11, Michael Büsch wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 15:08:24 +0300
> Wirz <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> The regression I reported a few weeks ago for 4.15, exists also in 4.16.
>>  That is, with a bcm4331/ht-phy b43 can be loaded and used without
>> problems, but the driver crashes when it gets unloaded (making a hard
>> reset of the machine necessary).  This problem has been introduced
>> between 4.14 and 4.15.
> 
> Thanks for your report.
> 
> I just checked the diff between 4.14 and 4.15 for b43 and bcma. It's
> pretty small and there's no obvious candidate to me that could cause
> such a regression.
> This might be a change outside of b43 and bcma that triggered this
> behavior.
> 
> Is is possible for you to create a git bisect to find the change that
> actually broke this?
> That would be really helpful.

I can try that.  What is the most efficient way to unload/recompile/load
a single module without rebooting the machine too often?  And it'll be a
lot of hard resets ...

cheers, lukas

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