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

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Message-ID: <CAG-2HqVhRZYJjnk4pRbzEF4Uz0R-Aw3_RVTV+utru2nx7HqpnA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:50:29 +0200
From:	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>
To:	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
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 Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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

Thanks for the reference, hadn't seen that. FWIW, it works for me.

Cheers,

Tom
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