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Re: [PATCH] ath5k: disable beacon interrupt when interface is down

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On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:22:51AM -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:09:04AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 23:03 -0400, Bob Copeland wrote:
> > > When we remove the active interface, there's no need to continue
> > > sending beacons; doing so would cause a null pointer deref in
> > > ieee80211_beacon_get().  Disable the interrupt in remove_interface
> > > and add a WARN_ON(!vif) in case there are other instances lurking.
> > 
> > There's a beacon_enabled setting passed in from mac80211, you should
> > just use that?
> 
> Hmm, yeah, I didn't know that.  I'll check it out.

I'll take this one for now, and you can send a better one on top when
you're ready.

Thanks,

John
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