On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 07:04:29AM +0200, CIJOML wrote:
> Hi Michal,
>
> my kernel is tainted with madwifi opensource driver :). Only binary part is
> ath_hal module, which doesn't have anythink to do with this part of kernel.
Any module can change any part of the kernel, e.g. a part of the code
executed when loading the ath_hal module could accidentally corrupt a
kernel data structure.
> Ath_hal is doing RF part of card to protect others tune/transmit in other
> frequency than 2.5/5.8GHz (Wifi 802.11a/b/g).
>
> My kernel is 100% opensource :)
That's wrong, the binary-only blob from ath_hal loaded into your kernel
is not opensource.
> And BTW this happens also with madwifi kernel modules unloaded.
An Oops without any external module ever loaded since booting is
strongly preferred.
> Best regards
>
> Michal
cu
Adrian
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