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Re: [PATCH] b43: Fix some MAC locking

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On Friday 19 December 2008 16:39:23 Larry Finger wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > This fixes some locking w.r.t. the lower MAC (firmware).
> > It also removes a lot of ancient IRQ-locking that's not needed anymore.
> > We simply suspend the MAC. That's easier and causes less trouble.
> 
> When booting with this patch and the RFKILL switch off, I got these b43dbg messages:
> 
> kernel: b43-phy0 debug: PHY/RADIO register access with enabled MAC.
> kernel: Pid: 7, comm: events/0 Not tainted 2.6.28-rc8-wl #55
> kernel: Call Trace:
> kernel:  [<ffffffffa02d6b15>] b43_phy_read+0x33/0x46 [b43]
> kernel:  [<ffffffffa02d8350>] b43_gphy_op_software_rfkill+0xde/0x131 [b43]
> kernel:  [<ffffffffa02d66d8>] b43_software_rfkill+0x20/0x2d [b43]

Thanks.
I guess suspending MAC before killing RF is a good thing anyway. I'll do a patch.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.
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