I had the same problem on my iwlagn notebook. This patch successfully
fixed that as well!
Thanks, Larry :)
Ehud
Larry Finger wrote:
If you are having problems with wireless networking using 2.6.30-rc1 from
Linus's Linux-2.6 git tree, the fix is the following (Note: This is _NOT_ needed
for wireless-testing!!!):
---
Fix try_then_request_module to use waiting __request_module again.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/kmod.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6.30-rc1/include/linux/kmod.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.30-rc1.orig/include/linux/kmod.h 2009-04-08 12:47:54.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.30-rc1/include/linux/kmod.h 2009-04-08 17:39:35.000000000 +0200
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ extern int __request_module(bool wait, c
#define request_module(mod...) __request_module(true, mod)
#define request_module_nowait(mod...) __request_module(false, mod)
#define try_then_request_module(x, mod...) \
- ((x) ?: (__request_module(false, mod), (x)))
+ ((x) ?: (__request_module(true, mod), (x)))
#else
static inline int request_module(const char *name, ...) { return -ENOSYS; }
static inline int request_module_nowait(const char *name, ...) { return -ENOSYS; }
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