netdev - Re: [PATCH] d80211: Fix __ieee80211_if

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Date:	Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:16:09 +0100
From:	Jiri Benc <jbenc@...e.cz>
To:	Michael Wu <flamingice@...rmilk.net>
Cc:	John Linville <linville@...driver.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Ulrich Kunitz <kune@...ne-taler.de>,
	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] d80211: Fix __ieee80211_if_del on live interfaces

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:19:14 -0500, Michael Wu wrote:
> This patch fixes that by setting dev->uninit to ieee80211_if_reinit and
> eliminating the call to ieee80211_if_reinit in __ieee80211_if_del. This
> allows ieee80211_if_reinit to be called at a safer time. It also allows
> the removal of the call to ieee80211_if_shutdown in ieee80211_if_reinit
> because ieee80211_if_reinit now will never be called while the interface
> is up.

Applied to my tree, thanks for the patch. (And I can confirm it fixes
the problem reported by Michael Buesch too.)

 Jiri

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Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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