Re: brcm80211: machine freezing hard with rfkill on

[Arend van Spriel]

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
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commit 82d8eba358badb466a4e988ecabf0668a8d92e9c
Author: Piotr Haber <phaber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Piotr Haber <phaber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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