netdev - RE: [mwifiex/USB8897] Error: Driver 'usb8xxx' is already registered, aborting...

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Date:	Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:19:27 -0800
From:	Bing Zhao <bzhao@...vell.com>
To:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Yogesh Powar <yogeshp@...vell.com>
CC:	Nishant Sarmukadam <nishants@...vell.com>,
	Frank Huang <frankh@...vell.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [mwifiex/USB8897] Error: Driver 'usb8xxx' is already
 registered, aborting...

Hi Fengguang,

> Greetings,
> 
> I got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> commit 68458dede7e0055198318dcb0318df3b4f419507
> CommitDate: Mon Jan 13 14:46:59 2014 -0500
> 
>     mwifiex: add USB8897 support
> 
> [    6.211307] Error: Driver 'usb8xxx' is already registered, aborting...
> [    6.211307] Error: Driver 'usb8xxx' is already registered, aborting...
> [    6.217261] mwifiex_usb: Driver register failed!
> [    6.217261] mwifiex_usb: Driver register failed!

Thanks for reporting this bug.
I will send the patch to fix it shortly.

Regards,
Bing

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