linux-kernel - Re: linux-next - request_module_nowait() breaks iptables and iwl3945

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Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:59:02 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
CC:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next - request_module_nowait() breaks iptables and iwl3945

Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 March 2009 08:57:15 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:27:58 +1030, Rusty Russell said:
>>> On Monday 16 March 2009 12:28:04 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
>>>> On recent linux-next, iptables and iwl3945 would fail to load
>>> Please send .config; I can't reproduce this here.
>> [root@...ing-police ~]# /etc/init.d/iptables start
>> iptables: Applying firewall rules: 
>> iptables-restore v1.4.2: iptables-restore: unable to initialize table 'filter'
> 
> OK, I think this might fix it.  It's already queued, but was labelled a mere
> "cleanup".

I wouldn't understand how it would fix it though;
the code before my patch passes in a 1, and the code after my patch passes in a variable
which has the value 1 as well.... using a symbolic name for it instead isn't going
to impact the generated code afaics...
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