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Re: [RTF] iwmc3200wifi: fix device registration ordering for cfg80211

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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 10:41:53 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:50 AM, John W. Linville
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone even have this hardware?
>
> I don't think it even exists any more.

Can the driver be removed?

>> So similarly here we can likely hit a case where we hit the double
>> wiphy_unregister() twice and I think we'd oops. My preference is to
>> make wiphy_unregister() re-entrant and let us detect when the device
>> already was unregistered. Johannes?
>
> I don't like that, it encourages sloppy driver writing. Seriously,
> why is it so hard to properly write the code?
>
> You can fail during init, or you can properly deregister, and that's
> about it, no?

That's fine too.

  Luis
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