linux-kernel - Re: B43 driver no longer works in Linux 4.15 (bisected)

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Date:   Mon, 5 Feb 2018 19:22:57 +0100
From:   Michael Büsch <m@...s.ch>
To:     Adric Blake <promarbler14@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jhogan@...nel.org
Subject: Re: B43 driver no longer works in Linux 4.15 (bisected)

On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:14:28 -0500
Adric Blake <promarbler14@...il.com> wrote:

> In the time between Linux 4.15-rc8 and -rc9, my wireless driver, b43, would
> no longer load automatically. When I modprobe the b43 (and ssb) modules,
> the device still didn't appear in NetworkManager. Comparing the kernel logs
> between working (4.14.16-lts) and nonworking (4.15) kernels reveals that
> there is zero output from the ssb module, and no devices recognized by the
> b43 driver:


Thanks for your bug report.
A fix for this exists already:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers.git/commit/?id=a9e6d44ddeccd3522670e641f1ed9b068e746ff7

-- 
Michael

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