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From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public•gmane.org>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public•gmane.org>
Cc: "John W. Linville"
	<linville-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public•gmane.org>,
	Hante Meuleman <meuleman-dY08KVG/lbpWk0Htik3J/w@public•gmane.org>,
	"'linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org'"
	<linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org>,
	"linux-next-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org"
	<linux-next-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Regression in 9390ace brcmfmac: free net device when registration fails
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 14:58:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51ADE47D.50700@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51AD1F22.2080004-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>

On 06/04/2013 12:56 AM, Stephen Warren wrote:
> (John, note that this commit is part of the pull request you sent to
> Dave today)
>
> Arend,
>
> Commit 9390ace "brcmfmac: free net device when registration fails"
> causes a regression.
>
> I had the BCM4330 firmware present in my root fs, whereas my HW is a
> BCM4329. With this patch applied, I get a kernel panic on boot. With it
> reverted, I see that no issues of that nature. This is true in
> next-20130531 (and also 5/30 and 6/1 but not earlier). A bisect of
> Linus's tree followed by a merge of John's wireless pull request from
> today pointed at this same commit.

Thanks, Stephen

I will look into this.

> Related: Since the two hardware require different firmware, I wonder why
> the driver doesn't use a firmware filename that encodes the HW device ID
> instead of using the same name for all HW. This means that when I move
> my SD card between development systems, I have to copy different
> firmware over the top. That's a little painful...

I agree that for development switching cards it is kinda awkward and I 
have been fooled by it as well. We may want to change or if your itch is 
annoying enough feel free to send a patch for it ;-)

Regards,
Arend


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-04 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-03 22:56 Regression in 9390ace brcmfmac: free net device when registration fails Stephen Warren
     [not found] ` <51AD1F22.2080004-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-06-04 12:58   ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2013-06-06 21:10     ` Arend van Spriel
2013-06-06 21:36       ` Stephen Warren
2013-06-12 21:19         ` Stephen Warren
2013-06-13  8:09           ` Arend van Spriel
2013-06-13 17:32             ` John W. Linville

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