Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:34:28PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 19:14, Larry Finger wrote:

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Andrew Morton wrote:

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:23:54 -0600 Zan Lynx [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

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Temporarily at

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/

Will appear later at

  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/

First impressions:
Several of the same bugs as rc3-mm*:
      * Freezes immediately if I touch the wlan0 device after loading
        the new Broadcom wireless driver.

The version of the ssb driver in 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 has a bug that causes a kernel oops if the bcm43xx
chip contains a USB (dangling) core. This bug has been fixed in Michael Buesch's tree, but
apparently not yet in Linville's wireless-dev tree. The patch is as follows:

commit 08531ff130bcc8181d9294a66e25010f48eefb97
Author: Michael Buesch [off-list ref]
Date:   Wed Mar 7 23:01:08 2007 +0100

    ssb: Don't freeze unregistered devices.

No, that's a different fix for suspend.

This is the fix:
http://bu3sch.de/gitweb?p=wireless-dev.git;a=commitdiff;h=b87f743f3643ea162892dce0bbc91e6f026a49bf

Pull request was sent to John.

That's "ssb-ohci: Completely disable the driver on non-embedded
systems", also in wireless-dev as of yesterday.

Thanks,

John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com