On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 22:52 +0100, Didier Raboud wrote: > Package: firmware-brcm80211 What has this got to do with the firmware? > Version: 0.27 > Severity: critical > Tags: patch > Justification: breaks the whole system No it doesn't. > Hi, > > Booting the "HP Mini 5103" with the firmware-brcm80211 package installed leads > to a 100% reproducible Kernel Panic. (Squeeze's 2.6.32 and experimental > 2.6.36-trunk are affected). > > >From the http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211 homepage, the fix > is to load the module with maxcpus=1. > > So a simple patch would be to ship a /etc/modprobe.d/brcm80211.conf containing > > options brcm80211 maxcpus=1 Why would we provide a modprobe file when we can change default module parameters directly? And how would this work when multiple kernel image packages are installed? > I tested that here and it works. [...] That's odd because this module doesn't have such an option. 'maxcpus=1' is a kernel command-line parameter, and strangely enough we do not want to use it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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