[Madwifi-users] Oops with HEAD

[Tino K. <tin...@gm...>]

Hi folks,

with the today's HEAD version, I only got this:

ath_hal: 0.9.12.1
wlan: 0.8.4.2 (EXPERIMENTAL)
ath_pci: 0.9.4.1 (EXPERIMENTAL)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:07:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ath%%d: HAL ABI msmatch; driver expects 0x4050400, HAL reports 0x0
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
 printing eip:
00000000
*pde = 00000000
       ___      ______
      0--,|    /OOOOOO\
     {_o  /  /OO plop OO\
       \__\_/OO oh dear OOO\s
          \OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO/
           __XXX__   __XXX__
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT 
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<00000000>]    Tainted: P   VLI
EFLAGS: 00010296   (2.6.6-mm1) 
EIP is at 0x0
eax: ea614000   ebx: eb02e000   ecx: 00000073   edx: ee9d5f64
esi: e9dd5000   edi: eb02e000   ebp: ea614000   esp: eb0d2e58
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process modprobe (pid: 3800, threadinfo=eb0d2000 task=e817d7b0)
Stack: f0c6a0ad ea614000 eb02e000 f0c0f13f f0c16fc0 eb02e000 04050400
00000000 
       00000001 c034eac0 e700cd9c 00000246 eb02ef20 00000006 eb02e3a8 eb02e000
       00000013 f0c164b2 08107791 eff6faa0 eff6faa0 00000292 00000006 eb02e000 
Call Trace:
 [pg0+814379181/1069789184] ath_hal_detach+0xd/0x60 [ath_hal]
 [pg0+814006591/1069789184] ath_attach+0x13f/0x9a0 [ath_pci]
 [pg0+814036146/1069789184] bus_read_cachesize+0x22/0x30 [ath_pci]
 [pg0+814035174/1069789184] ath_pci_probe+0x1c6/0x350 [ath_pci]
 [dput+28/608] dput+0x1c/0x260
 [pci_device_probe_static+70/96] pci_device_probe_static+0x46/0x60
 [__pci_device_probe+55/80] __pci_device_probe+0x37/0x50
 [pci_device_probe+35/64] pci_device_probe+0x23/0x40
 [bus_match+50/96] bus_match+0x32/0x60
 [driver_attach+89/144] driver_attach+0x59/0x90
 [kobject_register+34/96] kobject_register+0x22/0x60
 [bus_add_driver+130/160] bus_add_driver+0x82/0xa0
 [driver_register+40/48] driver_register+0x28/0x30
 [pci_register_driver+86/128] pci_register_driver+0x56/0x80
 [pg0+814284843/1069789184] init_ath_pci+0x2b/0x57 [ath_pci]
 [sys_init_module+258/528] sys_init_module+0x102/0x210
 [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Code:  Bad EIP value.

I use linux 2.6.6-mm1. The last version from the WPA branch (August
15th?) works fine. Any hints what went wrong?

Regards,
Tino