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

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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 09:48:13PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Not sure why its 00000001, nor do I know if its poison. One thing I am
> fairly positive about is that the reason why this was wrong all along
> was because we were trying to get the device's ->driver structure to
> get driver->name but the device won't get its ->driver pointer
> assigned until *after* a successful probe. Lets review the PCI probe:

No, as I later corrected myself, that is pci_dev->driver, but what
mac80211 is using is pci_dev->dev.driver.  Which actually happens to be
set up fine.  (I verified this by inserting a printk into the ath5k
driver and it all works fine.)

> Yeah don't bother, the issue on this e-mail was fixed, another issue
> has come up though so that is separate.

I think the second issue is just the first issue, but the fix papered
over the first bug.

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Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

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