linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION]: bcma: fix handling of big addrl

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Date:	Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:02:34 +0200
From:	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
To:	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>
CC:	Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION]: bcma: fix handling of big addrl

On 09/17/2013 09:11 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> The above commit causes a regression for me.
> 
> Booting with initcall_debug shows that bcma_modinit never returns:
> 
> calling  bcma_modinit+0x0/0x33 [bcma] @ 210
> bcma-pci-bridge 0000:02:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> bcma: bus0: Found chip with id 0xA8D8, rev 0x01 and package 0x08
> 
> Which means that (obviously) my wireless nic doesnot work (doe not
> show up in "ip addr"). Moreover, the kernel hangs during reboot and
> I'm forced to do a hard-reboot.
> 
> Reverting the offending commit on top of 3.12-rc1 fixes the problem.

Hi,

There is already a patch in wireless-testing on its way into linux tree:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git/commit/?id=167fef2a4dce0fa9b9b847bac91cd06c191396d2

Hauke

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