Re: [OOPS] bcm43xx oops on 2.6.20-rc1 on x86_64

Adrian Bunk wrote:

To avoid any misunderstandings:

This wasn't in any way meant against you personally.

And in this case you were right, it was the same bug.

My answer was based on experiences like one during 2.6.19-rc where we
had 4 bug reports for a regression with a patch available. And it turned
out that one of them was for a completely different regression.

That's why I prefer to get confirmations that a user actually run into
the same issue, and not into something completely different with similar
symptoms.

I certainly understood your intent and agree that confirmation is necessary. I was venting some
frustration at it taking nearly 3 weeks to get a fix into the system for a bug that was caused by a
change in an kernel structure that was not our doing. When Andrew posted a trial patch to fix the
compilation error that resulted, I immediately responded with the two additional fixes that were
needed, but they never made it into the code. Since then I have been seeing these obscure bug
reports and quickly learned that if either softmac or bcm43xx WX were involved, this fix took care
of the problem.

Larry

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