Bug 248382

Summary:	Regression in support for third party drivers in RHEL5 kernels post -23.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Jon Masters <jcm>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	urgent
Version:	5.0	CC:	dzickus, jturner, linville, peterm, tburke
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Fixed In Version:	RHBA-2007-0959	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Jon Masters 2007-07-16 15:35:50 UTC

Description of problem:

A recent patch to the RHEL5.1 public beta kernel has caused a regression in
behavior of the ipw3945-kmod package. This driver now causes an immediate kernel
oops on load, which triggers a kernel panic.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

All releases.

How reproducible:

Load driver on recent RHEL5.1 kernel (-34).

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Comment 1 John W. Linville 2007-07-19 16:54:10 UTC

*** Bug 248803 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Tim Burke 2007-07-19 20:41:21 UTC

Changing package to kernel -as it has been identified thats where the issue is
(not the separate ipw3945-kmod.

Comment 4 Jay Turner 2007-07-23 13:10:16 UTC

Not sure why this hasn't going into modified, as a fix was made available in the
2.6.18-36.el5 kernel (maybe additional work is coming down the pipe??)  Anyway,
I'm able to run the 2.6.18-36.el5 kernel alongside kmod-ipw3945-1.0-4.7.el5
without any problems (previously I was seeing kernel panics on boot with the
ipw3945 kmod and the "busted" kernels.)

Comment 8 Don Zickus 2007-07-23 16:17:53 UTC

in 2.6.18-36.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2007-11-07 19:56:05 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0959.html