[PATCH 0/3] bugfixes for crash on incompatible / non present firmware

Roland Vossen rvossen at broadcom.com
Tue Feb 15 10:13:49 UTC 2011


When no or incompatible firmware was present in /lib/firmware/brcm, the driver
could crash. This problem has been fixed and verified. 

Signed-off-by: Roland Vossen <rvossen at broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend at broadcom.com>

  staging: brcm80211: bugfix for oops on firmware load problems
  staging: brcm80211: bugfix for stack dump on firmware load problems
  staging: brcm80211: improved checks on incompatible firmware

 drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c   |   12 ++---
 .../staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_ucode_loader.c   |   55 +++++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)





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