Re: 3 system freezes after upgrading to 2.6.32-23: advice needed
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 18:33 -0300, Pedro Bulach Gapski wrote:
>> I have blacklisted the brcm80211 module and worked all day without a problem.
>>
>> I googled to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211,
>> where it is stated that
>> "43224/5 has a locking issue, stable with maxcpus=1, can crash
>> otherwise after random period."
>> which pretty much matches my case.
>>
>> Thanks for the advice, Ben.
>
> I've filed a bug on the broadcom-sta package, suggesting that it could
> provide a configuration file to blacklist brcm80211.
>
> However, I think we should continue to provide brcm80211 in the kernel
> image packages as there is some value in a free driver that doesn't have
> to be built by the user. We can apply upstream fixes for the locking
> bugs later.
I do agree.
Pedro
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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