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Re: [RFT 2/3] ath9k: port to cfg80211 rfkill

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On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 18:50 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 04:40:29PM +0530, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > This ports the ath9k rfkill code to the new API offered by
> > cfg80211 and thus removes a lot of useless stuff.
> > 
> 
> I get the following lockdep warning few times when tried to scan
> after rfkill on/off. 

Thanks, will fix, this doesn't seem to be ath9k specific. It's the
dreaded locking in rfkill. I can work around it easily in cfg80211, or
fix rfkill, will see what's easier.

> One more issue is, when rfkill is enabled before
> reboot, I could not bring up the interface when the rfkill is turned
> off after reboot. 

Sounds like the driver doesn't initialise properly. Hmm, maybe we just
need to move ath_start_rfkill_poll() to ath_attach(), could you please
try that?

> Apart from this it looks good, fixes a panic which
> used to happen during module unload.

Heh.

Thanks,
johannes

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