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Message-ID: <51E93BFA.4090808@broadcom.com>
Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:15:38 +0200
From:	"Arend van Spriel" <arend@...adcom.com>
To:	"Jiri Slaby" <jslaby@...e.cz>
cc:	brcm80211-dev-list@...adcom.com,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linux kernel mailing list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: brcm80211: machine freezing hard with rfkill on

On 07/19/13 09:02, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> our users report [1] that their machines freeze hard when they have
> rfkill turned on and try to run wpa_supplicant or enable network
> otherwise. This is with BCM43225 over PCI chip.
>
> Any ideas what that could be or how to fix this?
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787649
>
> thanks,

Hi Jiri,

Looking in the bug report it seems to be on 3.4 kernel. The commit below 
is done later.

Regards,
Arend
---------------
commit 82d8eba358badb466a4e988ecabf0668a8d92e9c
Author: Piotr Haber <phaber@...adcom.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 19 22:21:15 2012 +0200

     brcmsmac: don't start device when RfKill is engaged

     This patch fixes a bug when device is being started
     while RfKill switch is engaged, leading to hang
     due to partial initialization of hardware.

     Tested-by: <dragonn@...pl>
     Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
     Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@...adcom.com>
     Signed-off-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@...adcom.com>
     Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
     Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@...driver.com>


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