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Re: brcmsmac broken with 3.2

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On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Did this problem occur with plain 3.2 kernel. I checked out the v3.2
> mainline tag and looked at line 2979:ieee80211_rx():
> 2975:        /*
> 2976:         * The same happens when we're not even started,
> 2977:         * but that's worth a warning.
> 2978:         */
> 2979:        if (WARN_ON(!local->started))
> 2980:                goto drop;
>
>>> ieee80211_rx+0x91b/0x9e0 [mac80211]()
>>> [36370.370775] Hardware name: Vostro 3500
>>> [36370.370870] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        WC O 3.2.0
>
> I guess brcmsmac is sending up a received wireless packet to mac80211
> and it is dropped, because mac80211 did not yet call the start callback.
> It is just a warning so if you are having problems connecting to an AP
> you may have other issues.

After this warning I can't connect to an AP anymore, I have to unload
and reload the brcmsmac module.

Thanks for your time.
-- 
Francis
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