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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:59:33 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com> To: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@...el.com> Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, Ferenc Wagner <wferi@...f.hu>, "ipw2100-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" <ipw2100-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>, "linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [Ipw2100-devel] 2.6.32-rc4 ipw2200: oops on missing firmware On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 02:50:28PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > OK. The rfkill device is removed without being added before! The root > cause is, for non-monitor interfaces, the syntax for > alloc_ieee80211/free_80211 is wrong. Because alloc_ieee80211 only > creates (wiphy_new) a wiphy, but free_80211() does wiphy_unregister() > also. This is only correct when the later wiphy_register() is called > successfully, which apparently is not the case for your fw doesn't exist > one. Please see if this patch fix the problem. > > Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@...el.com> Thanks, Zhu! That certainly looks better than what I had. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@...driver.com might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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