On Saturday 07 April 2007 19:44, Larry Finger wrote: > Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 15:51 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > >> On Saturday 07 April 2007 02:01, Larry Finger wrote: > >>> The current mb and wireless-dev git trees both get a kernel NULL pointer > >>> in "param_set_copystring" > >>> when modprobe'ing bcm43xx-mac80211 with a line of 'options > >>> bcm43xx-mac80211 fwpostfix = ".fw4"' in > >>> /etc/modprobe.conf.local. This construction used to work and still does > >>> for bcm43xx-softmac. I > >>> compared the code between the two versions and cannot see any real > >>> differences. Any suggestions? > >> Uhm, fwpostfix=.fw4 works fine for me when I pass it to modprobe. > > > > I use > > $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/bcm43xx > > options bcm43xx-mac80211 fwpostfix=-v4 > > options bcm43xx_mac80211 fwpostfix=-v4 > > options bcm43xx fwpostfix=-v3 > > > > and it works great. > > My bad. As shown above, I had white space around the equals - a no-no. > Removing it fixed the > problem. The examples both of you showed gave me the clue.
Hm, probably a bug in the modparam subsystem, though. I'd say it shouldn't crash, at least. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
