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On Saturday 28 April 2007 02:26:06 Michael Wu wrote:
> On Friday 27 April 2007 17:37, Jiri Benc wrote:
> > has anyone an idea what's going on here?
> >
> > How to reproduce:
> > 1. modprobe bcm43xx_mac80211
> > 2. plug in my cardbus bcm4318 card
> > (note that if I swap these two steps, the oops doesn't occur)
> >
> > By adding debug printks, I located the place where the null dereference
> > happens. Please note that I have Michael Wu's latest patches applied.
> > It's in
> > 	name = wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy)->driver->name;
> > and wiphy_dev(local->hw.wiphy) is NULL.
> >
> I've attached a patch. I don't have the hardware so I don't know if it'll 
> work, but it seems right to me.

Thanks for that patch. It's almost right.
I committed the right fix.
http://bu3sch.de/gitweb?p=wireless-dev.git;a=commitdiff;h=7371ae7ba51fb380681584c9132540ff5a86604a

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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