On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > mac80211's ieee80211_register_hw() is often called within the > probe path so it cannot assume the device's driver structure > has been attached yet so to create a workqueue instead of > using driver->name use the wiphy's phy%d name. The name doesn't > really matter anyway. > > This should fix sporadic oopses found when we race to beat the > driver pointer setting. Not even sure how this was working properly. I'd still like to identify the race first. This patch won't hurt anything, but I'm not confident it will solve any problem either (the pci_dev->driver setting I was seeing after probe was for a different struct driver). Also it could make the bug harder to track down. In the reported case, wiphy_name will be empty string which isn't too helpful for the workqueue name either, though it probably won't crash. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- 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
