netdev - Re: brcm80211 breakage..

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:01:13 +0100
From:	"Arend van Spriel" <arend@...adcom.com>
To:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"Network Development" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@...adcom.com>,
	"Rafał Miłecki" 
	<zajec5@...il.com>, "Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Subject: Re: brcm80211 breakage..

On 01/11/2012 05:04 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> Sadly, that one makes no difference. I'll enable BRCM/BCMA debugging
>> and see if that gives any more information, but will be unable to do
>> much for the next few hours, so it will likely not be until this
>> afternoon.

There goes my theory. I have no MacBook Air over here and we have
nightly testing running for this chip. I will have it run on your branch
iso wireless to see if I can reproduce it over here.

> Ok, could do it now. But that really doesn't give much more
> information. Here it is anyway:
> [   41.797178] brcmsmac bcma0:0: mfg 4bf core 812 rev 23 class 0 irq 17
> [   41.952030] bcma: Switched to core: 0x820
> [   41.952050] bcma: Switched to core: 0x800
> [   41.953881] ieee80211 phy0: wl0: brcms_b_attach: si_attach failed
> [   41.956397] ieee80211 phy0: wl0: brcms_b_attach: failed with err 11
> [   41.958443] ieee80211 phy0: wl0: brcms_c_attach: failed with err 11
> [   41.960468] ieee80211 phy0: brcmsmac: attach() failed with code 11
> [   41.962316] brcmsmac: brcms_bcma_probe: brcms_attach failed!
> [   41.967275] brcms_module_init: register returned 0
> 
> hopefully this gives people *some* idea, but I'm not seeing anything.
> 
>          Linus
> 

I have some idea, but no success in reproducing it. Could you provide
the .config used on this?

Gr. AvS

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