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Date:	Mon, 8 Nov 2010 22:01:11 +0000
From:	"Berg, Johannes" <johannes.berg@...el.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Guy, Wey-Yi W" <wey-yi.w.guy@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] iwl3945: Fix oops at module load

> From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> On my laptop the iwl3945 driver oopsed at boot with 2.6.37-rc1
> in __dev_printk.
> 
> The problem is that for some reason it prints the sw scan
> warning, but does that before the pci device is initialized
> in the driver private structure. This leads to an oops
> in the warning print code.
> 
> Move the warning after the device has been initialized.

Yup, something like this is needed, sorry about this!
I believe we have a fix for this in the pipeline somewhere.

johannes
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