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Re: Kernel oops when loading ath5k from compat-wireless in 2.6.27

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On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Sujith <m.sujith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> > From the original log:
>> > ath5k_pci 0000:01:00.0: registered as ''
>>
>> That comes from
>>
>> dev_info(&pdev->dev, "registered as '%s'\n", wiphy_name(hw->wiphy));
>>
>> which means that may be buggy too as wiphy_name() gets
>>
>> return wiphy->dev.bus_id;
>>
>> and we only have set at that point wiphy->dev.parent IIRC.
>>
>
> Nope, parent is set after that call in SET_IEEE80211_DEV()
> phy[x] gets assigned in alloc_hw().
>
> So why is it NULL even if alloc_hw() succeeds ?

Parent is wiphy->dev.parent not wiphy->dev though

  Luis
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