From: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@xxxxxxxxx> This patch sets STATUS_EXIT_PENDING on pci_remove. Otherwise iwl4965_down may fail to uninitialize the driver. Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c index 4e3d6c7..e01f048 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c @@ -4372,15 +4372,18 @@ static void __devexit iwl4965_pci_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev) iwl_dbgfs_unregister(priv); sysfs_remove_group(&pdev->dev.kobj, &iwl4965_attribute_group); + /* ieee80211_unregister_hw call wil cause iwl4965_mac_stop to + * to be called and iwl4965_down since we are removing the device + * we need to set STATUS_EXIT_PENDING bit. + */ + set_bit(STATUS_EXIT_PENDING, &priv->status); if (priv->mac80211_registered) { ieee80211_unregister_hw(priv->hw); priv->mac80211_registered = 0; + } else { + iwl4965_down(priv); } - set_bit(STATUS_EXIT_PENDING, &priv->status); - - iwl4965_down(priv); - /* make sure we flush any pending irq or * tasklet for the driver */ -- 1.5.3.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html