Re: [Madwifi-users] oops in madwifi-free r3968

[Pavel R. <pr...@gn...>]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 18:09 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 12:40 +0200, Karl Hiramoto wrote:
> 
> > PC is at 0x0                                                                                                                                                     
> > LR is at ar5416Detach+0x58/0x68 [ath_hal]                                                                                                                        
> 
> I merged some changes from FreeBSD yesterday, which could have affected
> that code.  Did any previous revision of madwifi-free work for you?
> Does any other MadWifi branch work for you?
> 
> Please enable all kernel messages with "dmesg -n 8" and post the line
> containing "chip found".
> 
> I'll appreciate if you find out what condition in ar5416Attach() makes
> it call ar5416Detach().

It turns out that any failure before ath_hal_v14EepromAttach() in
ar5416Attach() would result in ar5416Detach() crashing in
ath_hal_eepromDetach().  The later is a macro written in an unsafe
manner.  I'll fix it shortly.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin