On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 13:33 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Pavel Roskin <proski@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 09:33 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > > >> How was this compiling for older kernels before then? > > > > Compiling was fine, but loading the firmware was failing sometimes. I'm > > glad somebody figured it out. Thank you, Grazvydas! > > OK Applied. I'm still puzzled, if it compiled, then that means > dev_set_uevent_suppress() was being defined somehow for older kernels. It's wasn't defined. The function just wasn't called for older kernels. "#if" was there; the patch added "#else". It's a great example how simply-minded commenting out missing functions can lead to a hard problem, a race condition. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- 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
