Re: HEADS UP! Do not update on main currently (panic - on boot)

From: Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 23:12:48 UTC
On Thu, 6 Mar 2025, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

> On Wed 05 Mar 23:39, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the fix from https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=27bf5c405bf2eb69392e45c06605defc78882612
>> makes wireless panic for me in my development branch;  that said I am
>> working on TKIP currently so I have code in progress.
>>
>> In case you hit the panic (on boot) because you have updated, please
>> disable the HW_CRYPTO tunable from loader and live without HT/VHT for a
>> few hours again.
>>
>> I am looking where the problem comes from now and for a fix then.
>>
>> /bz
>>
>
> Thanks for the heads up!
>
> The weekly snapshots for pkgbase are generated the weekend, if you haven't been
> able to figure out a fix by then, if would be nice for pkgbase consumers if you
> could revert the change before the next snapshot building.
>
> Many people took the habbit to run pkgbase from weekly snapshots and reboot
> every monday on a fresh new current machine.

Okay, the solution for now which doesn't require refactoring half of the
code and fixing net80211 over night is in main:

https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=b8dfc3ecf7031a0a7764cdb67d85ebe0c03d5d93

With that pkg base builds for the weekend should be fine one would hope.

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7