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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 3:13 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Sujith is right, wiphy->dev.bus_id should be set by the time that's printed,
>>> since wiphy_new in alloc_hw fills it in.
>>
>> Ah, I see, yes, oh man. Well this is good :)
>
> OK then try the patch in the other thread. If that doesn't fix it then
> it has to be another issue.

Can someone point me to the "other thread"? I don't think I was CCed
on it since I came late to the party.

Someone also inquired about versions. I'm using stable kernel 2.6.27.6
and compat-wireless-2008-11-13 (10-28 was doing the same thing
however).

-Dan
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