Bug#495358: The Debian kernel has a buggy b43 driver
Package: kernel
Version: 2.6.24-1-686
Right now the Debian b43 driver is in 4th place in the kerneloops.org
statistics with the following backtrace:
WARNING: at drivers/ssb/main.c:883 ssb_tmslow_reject_bitmask()
Pid: 3259, comm: NetworkManager Not tainted 2.6.24-1-486 #1
[<f885f7d3>] ssb_tmslow_reject_bitmask+0x4b/0x56 [ssb]
[<f885ff0b>] ssb_device_is_enabled+0x9/0x2d [ssb]
[<f8a07e46>] b43_wireless_core_init+0x34/0x60b [b43]
[<f8a15b2b>] b43_rfkill_init+0x142/0x188 [b43]
[<f8a0894c>] b43_start+0x4d/0x86 [b43]
[<f89ea69b>] ieee80211_open+0x19c/0x339 [mac80211]
[<c025b3ff>] dev_open+0x41/0x75
[<c025a179>] dev_change_flags+0x9c/0x148
[<c0260bb3>] do_setlink+0x20c/0x2b5
[<c0261d82>] rtnl_setlink+0xdb/0xf6
[<c026e82c>] netlink_dump_start+0xe2/0x113
[<c0261ca7>] rtnl_setlink+0x0/0xf6
[<c0261a4c>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x19a/0x1b4
[<c0261305>] rtnl_dump_ifinfo+0x0/0x8e
[<c02618b2>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x0/0x1b4
[<c026d8bd>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x2d/0x7f
[<c02618ac>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x14/0x1a
[<c026d6c8>] netlink_unicast+0x179/0x1d3
[<c026de7d>] netlink_sendmsg+0x278/0x284
Later kernels appear to have this mostly fixed.....
More information about this at
http://www.kerneloops.org/guilty.php?version=2.6.24&guilty=ssb_tmslow_reject_bitmask&start=1605632&end=1605632&like=1
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