Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:15:38 +0200 | From | "Arend van Spriel" <> | Subject | Re: brcm80211: machine freezing hard with rfkill on |
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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@broadcom.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@op.pl> Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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