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

From: Michael BÃsch
Date: Mon Feb 05 2018 - 14:05:25 EST


On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:14:28 -0500
Adric Blake <promarbler14@xxxxxxxxx> 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

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Michael

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