Re: After kernel 6.3.7 or 6.3.8 b43 driver fails

[Larry Finger]

On 6/24/23 09:00, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> On 24.06.23 11:29, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2023, at 10:50, Michael Büsch wrote:
> > > On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 08:44:15 +0700
> > > Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > I suspect change introduced when addressing a compiler warning
> > > > > cased the error.
> > > > >
> > > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20230516183442.536589-1-arnd%40kernel.org/
> > >
> > > I doubt it.
> > > This patch affects the device initialization code. But the crash is in
> > > the transmit path.
> > > Can you please double check by manually reverting the patch?
> >
> > I'm travelling at the moment and can't easily check it, but I would
> > expect that my patch has no effect on the generated object code [...]
>
> Michael, Arnd, thx for the replies. To you and everyone else that looked
> into this: sorry for the trouble this caused.
>
> The reporter's guess was wrong, as the reporter meanwhile confirmed in
> the bugzilla ticket that the problem started to happen earlier.
>
> Bagas, please be a bit more careful and don't blame a specific commit
> unless it's was found by bisection, a revert through a lucky guess, a
> statement from a developer, or something like that. In cases like this
> it would have been better to sent the developers of said commit a quick
> mail along the lines of "could you imagine that this change could lead
> to the problem the reporter described". But even that might be too much
> in a case like this, as too many of such false alarms and inquiries will
> make developers start hating or ignoring regression tracking in general
> or mails from you or me – and that is something that must be avoided, as
> without help from developers regression tracking becomes a lot harder or
> impossible.
>
> Ciao, Thorsten (wearing his 'the Linux kernel's regression tracker' hat)
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The OP definitely needs to bisect this problem. The only system that I have that 
runs b43 is a PowerBook G4 with a ppc32 CPU. That box has successfully run b43 
for every release up to 6.4.0-rc7. I have seen no problems in recent kernels.

Larry