For the archives: On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Your userspace firmware helper (I guess it's not udev on your device?) > might be throwing crap at the kernel. > Yes it is udev (at least for the moment - running on NFS root and concentrating on kernel stuff) My problem was that I had _two_ udev rules invoking /lib/udev/firmware.sh this resulted in a race between them and the kernel sometimes getting the firmware for the previous request - hilarity ensued! One of the rules (50-udev-default.rules) was from the upstream udev source The other (udev.rules) was put there by openembedded. Have reported this to the OE list. With that sorted out it all seems to work fine - I haven't done any stress tests yet though. Thanks for your help Cheers, Martin -- 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