On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. > > Right, the dev for the pci_dev which hasn't yet had a driver assigned > yet, no? Who assigns the pci_dev's dev's driver pointer and when? Or > am I still missing something? Oh nevermind yeah pci_dev->driver = drv; but still who then assigns the dev's driver? Luis -- 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
