Hello! After upgrading a PowerPC system from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11, I started getting a BUG on startup. I'm using a self-compiled kernel from writeless-testing.git. The current source is affected, and so is an older revision identified as 2.6.30-rc6-wl. The BUS causes a long wait on startup (about 3 minutes). Perhaps it's caused by udev waiting for something. mac80211 is compiled into the kernel, but ath5k is not: $ lsmod Module Size Used by hfs 52980 1 ath5k 130428 0 ath 7564 1 ath5k The system has 2 Atheros devices: 01:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) 01:03.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) That's the relevant part of the kernel log: udevd version 127 started ath5k 0000:01:02.0: enabling device (0014 -> 0016) ath5k 0000:01:02.0: registered as 'phy0' ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0 ath: EEPROM indicates default country code should be used ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a ath: Country alpha2 being used: US ath: Regpair used: 0x3a phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel' ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2414 chip found (MAC: 0x79, PHY: 0x45) ath5k 0000:01:03.0: enabling device (0014 -> 0016) ath5k 0000:01:03.0: registered as 'phy1' ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0 ath: EEPROM indicates default country code should be used ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a ath: Country alpha2 being used: US ath: Regpair used: 0x3a cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel' ath5k phy1: Atheros AR5213A chip found (MAC: 0x59, PHY: 0x43) ath5k phy1: RF2112B 2GHz radio found (0x46) udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan1 udev: renamed network interface wlan1_rename to wlan0 ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at /home/proski/src/linux-2.6/net/wireless/reg.c:2132! Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] PowerMac Modules linked in: ath5k ath [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] NIP: c02f3eac LR: c02f3d08 CTR: 00000000 REGS: ef107aa0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.30-rc8-wl) MSR: 00029032 <EE,ME,CE,IR,DR> CR: 88002442 XER: 20000000 TASK = ef84acb0[834] 'crda' THREAD: ef106000 GPR00: ef953840 ef107b50 ef84acb0 ef1380bc 00000006 c035a5c8 ef107b90 c035a5c8 GPR08: 00080005 efb68980 c0445628 ef130004 28002422 10019ce0 10012d3c 00000001 GPR16: 1070b2ac 00000005 48023558 1070b380 4802304c 00000000 ef107ddc c035a5c8 GPR24: ef107b78 c0443350 ef8bcb00 00000005 ef138080 c04a6a70 c04a0000 ef8bcb00 NIP [c02f3eac] set_regdom+0x4c4/0x4ec LR [c02f3d08] set_regdom+0x320/0x4ec Call Trace: [ef107b50] [c02f3d08] set_regdom+0x320/0x4ec (unreliable) [ef107b70] [c02f9d10] nl80211_set_reg+0x140/0x2d0 [ef107bc0] [c02aa2b8] genl_rcv_msg+0x204/0x228 [ef107c10] [c02a97cc] netlink_rcv_skb+0xe8/0x10c [ef107c30] [c02aa094] genl_rcv+0x3c/0x5c [ef107c40] [c02a9050] netlink_unicast+0x308/0x36c [ef107c80] [c02a92bc] netlink_sendmsg+0x208/0x2f0 [ef107cd0] [c0282048] sock_sendmsg+0xac/0xe4 [ef107db0] [c02822b4] sys_sendmsg+0x234/0x2d8 [ef107f00] [c0283a88] sys_socketcall+0x108/0x258 [ef107f40] [c0012790] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38 --- Exception: c01 at 0xfa6b3b4 LR = 0xfb4b5d4 Instruction dump: 80690000 4bffc1e9 2c030000 4182003c 88a30039 88830038 3c60c03c 38632a18 4802c20d 4bfffed0 7f83e378 8403003c <0f000000> 7fe4fb78 4bffe6d1 7c7b1b79 ---[ end trace c8eebdfbe3eb31de ]--- net/wireless/reg.c:2132 is: BUG_ON(request_wiphy->regd); An x86_64 running Fedora 11 and the current wireless-testing kernel doesn't exhibit this behavior. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html