mmotm 2009-10-09-01-07 - iwl3945 fails to do firmware load request

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:07:49 PDT, akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
> The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2009-10-09-01-07 has been uploaded to
> 
>    http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

Broke my iwl3945 wireless card:

Good (2.6.31-mmotm0917)
Oct  8 09:55:33 turing-police kernel: [    0.809101] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks
Oct  8 09:55:33 turing-police kernel: [    0.809106] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation
Oct  8 09:55:33 turing-police kernel: [    0.809201] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Oct  8 09:55:33 turing-police kernel: [    0.879463] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
Oct  8 09:55:33 turing-police kernel: [    0.879466] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
...
Oct  8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [   31.599751] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode
Oct  8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [   31.697046] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: loaded firmware version 15.28.2.8
Oct  8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [   31.777214] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::radio
Oct  8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [   31.777430] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::assoc
Oct  8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [   31.777545] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::RX
Oct  8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [   31.777676] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX
Oct  8 09:55:35 turing-police kernel: [   31.789446] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
(and then wpa-supplicant is able to bring the card up when it finally gets launched by initscripts)

Bad 2.6.32-rc3-mmotm1009:

Oct  9 13:50:19 turing-police kernel: [    0.931788] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks
Oct  9 13:50:19 turing-police kernel: [    0.944678] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation
Oct  9 13:50:19 turing-police kernel: [    0.957831] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Oct  9 13:50:19 turing-police kernel: [    1.038946] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
Oct  9 13:50:19 turing-police kernel: [    1.038950] iwl3945 0000:0c:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG

We never see the firmware load request, and of course everything goes
pear-shaped after that doesn't happen....

Kernel is built with:

%  zgrep -i iwl /proc/config.gz 
CONFIG_IWLWIFI=y
CONFIG_IWLWIFI_SPECTRUM_MEASUREMENT=y
# CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING=y
# CONFIG_IWLAGN is not set
CONFIG_IWL3945=y
CONFIG_IWL3945_SPECTRUM_MEASUREMENT=y

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