Hi John,

Please try to push this for 2.6.17, as it is a crash fix.

--

Place the Init-vs-IRQ workaround before any card register
access, because we might not have the wireless core mapped
at all times in init. So this will result in a Machine Check
caused by a bus error.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Index: wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c       
2006-06-17 15:06:38.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c    2006-06-17 
15:17:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -1885,6 +1885,15 @@
 
        spin_lock(&bcm->irq_lock);
 
+       /* Only accept IRQs, if we are initialized properly.
+        * This avoids an RX race while initializing.
+        * We should probably not enable IRQs before we are initialized
+        * completely, but some careful work is needed to fix this. I think it
+        * is best to stay with this cheap workaround for now... .
+        */
+       if (unlikely(bcm43xx_status(bcm) != BCM43xx_STAT_INITIALIZED))
+               goto out;
+
        reason = bcm43xx_read32(bcm, BCM43xx_MMIO_GEN_IRQ_REASON);
        if (reason == 0xffffffff) {
                /* irq not for us (shared irq) */
@@ -1906,19 +1915,11 @@
 
        bcm43xx_interrupt_ack(bcm, reason);
 
-       /* Only accept IRQs, if we are initialized properly.
-        * This avoids an RX race while initializing.
-        * We should probably not enable IRQs before we are initialized
-        * completely, but some careful work is needed to fix this. I think it
-        * is best to stay with this cheap workaround for now... .
-        */
-       if (likely(bcm43xx_status(bcm) == BCM43xx_STAT_INITIALIZED)) {
-               /* disable all IRQs. They are enabled again in the bottom half. 
*/
-               bcm->irq_savedstate = bcm43xx_interrupt_disable(bcm, 
BCM43xx_IRQ_ALL);
-               /* save the reason code and call our bottom half. */
-               bcm->irq_reason = reason;
-               tasklet_schedule(&bcm->isr_tasklet);
-       }
+       /* disable all IRQs. They are enabled again in the bottom half. */
+       bcm->irq_savedstate = bcm43xx_interrupt_disable(bcm, BCM43xx_IRQ_ALL);
+       /* save the reason code and call our bottom half. */
+       bcm->irq_reason = reason;
+       tasklet_schedule(&bcm->isr_tasklet);
 
 out:
        mmiowb();
-
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