Bug#637240: brcmsmac: "firmware bug" warning when connecting, hang when unloading brcmsmac driver unless near AP

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Camaleón wrote:

> I don't know what's going on here but this has started working as soon
> as I brought the netbook next to the AP:
[...]
> I think this bug can be closed, I know the brcmsmac is a stage driver
> and so we can experience some problems with it. Anyway, I will keep an
> eye on it.

What is staging for, if not for finding bugs like this before they
affect more people?  Please send a summary of your findings to
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, cc-ing devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
and

M:      Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
M:      Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
M:      Roland Vossen <rvossen@broadcom.com>
M:      Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
M:      Franky (Zhenhui) Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
M:      Kan Yan <kanyan@broadcom.com>

(list taken from MAINTAINERS in the source tree), and this bug log.

Thanks very much for your work, and I hope it can result in a fix
soon.