Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 30 Dec 2006 16:45:21 -0600 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: [OOPS] bcm43xx oops on 2.6.20-rc1 on x86_64 |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:23:42PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: >> Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 03:15:28PM -0500, Aaron Sethman wrote: >>>> Just was loading the bcm43xx module and got the following oops. Note that >>>> this card is one of the newer PCI-E cards. If any other info is needed >>>> let me know. >>> Is this issue still present in 2.6.10-rc2-git1? >>> >>> If yes, was 2.6.19 working fine? >> ... >> >> Any oops involving wireless extensions is due to 2.6.20-rc1 and -rc2 not having the fix for softmac >> that is necessitated by the 2.6.20 changes in the work structure. > > "Any oops" are very strong words.
Yes - but I have seen at least 7 or 8 different occurrences of that bug since the patch was first made available on Dec. 10, and I have seen no bcm43xx oopses from any other cause.
> It wouldn't be the first time that we have several similar bug reports, > and it turns out that one is for a completely different issue... > > That's why I asked for testing with 2.6.20-rc2-git1 that includes the > two ieee80211softmac patches.
I have been chasing a sound-card issue today and missed that -git1 was out. That version fixes the two outstanding 2.6.20 softmac issues.
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