I see this with lockdep enabled in today's wireless-testing. INFO: trying to register non-static key. the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation. turning off the locking correctness validator. Pid: 1755, comm: ifconfig Not tainted 2.6.36-rc7-wl+ #30 Call Trace: [<c075e490>] ? printk+0xf/0x17 [<c045507e>] register_lock_class+0x5a/0x29e [<c0455be6>] ? mark_lock+0x1e/0x1de [<c0456af9>] __lock_acquire+0xa2/0xb8c [<c0455be6>] ? mark_lock+0x1e/0x1de [<c045763d>] lock_acquire+0x5a/0x78 [<f8c06133>] ? ath9k_config+0x274/0x3d8 [ath9k] [<c0760152>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2f/0x3f [<f8c06133>] ? ath9k_config+0x274/0x3d8 [ath9k] [<f8c06133>] ath9k_config+0x274/0x3d8 [ath9k] [<f8882a2b>] ieee80211_hw_config+0x11b/0x125 [mac80211] [<f888ee9d>] ieee80211_do_open+0x3b4/0x455 [mac80211] [<f888e1b2>] ? ieee80211_check_concurrent_iface+0x21/0x13a [mac80211] [<f888ef99>] ieee80211_open+0x5b/0x5e [mac80211] [<c06cf333>] __dev_open+0x80/0xae [<c06cd563>] __dev_change_flags+0xa0/0x115 [<c06cf287>] dev_change_flags+0x13/0x3f [<c0718c2c>] devinet_ioctl+0x21e/0x49d [<c071a30c>] inet_ioctl+0x82/0x9b [<c06c0418>] sock_ioctl+0x1ce/0x1f0 [<c06c024a>] ? sock_ioctl+0x0/0x1f0 [<c04c27df>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x4a7/0x4ec [<c0499a16>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x41d/0x9da [<c04b823e>] ? fcheck_files+0x81/0xb6 [<c04c2865>] sys_ioctl+0x41/0x61 [<c0402f1c>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- 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