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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: don't assume driver has been attached on registration

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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:14:24AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> That can't be right! wiphy_name is assigned right in wiphy_new()!

I know, it doesn't make any sense.  But the posted dmesg clearly shows 
ath5k printing the wiphy_name (after ieee80211_alloc_hw returned not
null): "ath5k_pci xxxx registered as ''".  So, something really odd is
going on.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

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