On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> 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. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
