malo causes sig 12 error and panic on Freebsd 7.2-PRERELEASE (7-STABLE)

[Weongyo Jeong]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:03:25AM +0400, Chagin Dmitry wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:42:29PM +0900, Weongyo Jeong wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:53:34PM +0400, Chagin Dmitry wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:05:32PM +0900, Weongyo Jeong wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:11:43PM +0300, Chagin Dmitry wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:52:43PM +0000, John wrote:
> > > > > > Hi list
> > > > > > 
> > > [skiped]
> > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Weongyo, please, look at line #166 - 169.
> > > > 
> > > > Oops.  I got it. :-)  I'll commit a patch into CURRENT as soon as
> > > > possible.  Thanks!
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > yeah, does not fall any more. But, unfortunately, does not work :(
> > > 
> > > Mar 30 20:45:13 dchagin kernel: malo0: <Marvell Libertas 88W8335 802.11g
> > > Wireless Adapter> mem 0xd0130000-0xd013ffff,0xd0120000-0xd012ffff irq 22 at
> > > device 4.0 on pci4
> > > Mar 30 20:45:13 dchagin kernel: malo0: [FILTER]
> > > Mar 30 20:45:13 dchagin kernel: malo0: unable to allocate memory for cmd tag,
> > > error 12
> > > Mar 30 20:45:13 dchagin kernel: malo0: unable to attach HAL
> > > Mar 30 20:45:13 dchagin kernel: device_attach: malo0 attach returned 5
> > > 
> > > is this expected behaviour for such device?
> > 
> > No.  It's one of the unexpected for amd64.  Could you please test with
> > attached patch?
> > 
> > regards,
> > Weongyo Jeong
> 
> dchagin# ifconfig malo0
> malo0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>     ether 00:18:4d:ec:61:89
>     media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>     status: no carrier
> 
> dchagin# ifconfig malo0 scan
> ifconfig: unable to get scan results
> 
> In the evening I will more in detail look... anyway, many thanks :)

FWIW the following commands would be useful for CURRENT:

	# ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev malo0
	# ifconfig wlan0 ssid <ap_name> up

Please see malo(4) for details.  Thanks for testing  :-)

regards,
Weongyo Jeong