On 05/14/2012 06:06 PM, Stanislav Yakovlev wrote:
The problem was found by Larry Finger: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=133702401700614&w=2 The problem is identical to the one for ipw2200 which is already fixed: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=133457257407196&w=2 [ 17.766431] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 17.766467] WARNING: at net/wireless/core.c:562 wiphy_register+0x34c/0x3c0 [cfg80211]() [ 17.766471] Hardware name: Latitude D600 [ 17.766474] Modules linked in: ipw2100(+) libipw pcmcia cfg80211 ppdev parport_pc yenta_socket sr_mod pcmcia_rsrc parport iTCO_wdt cdrom sg rfkill pcmcia_ core lib80211 tg3 video button battery ac iTCO_vendor_support joydev shpchp pcspkr pciehp pci_hotplug autofs4 radeon ttm drm_kms_helper uhci_hcd ehci_hcd rtc _cmos thermal drm hwmon i2c_algo_bit i2c_core processor usbcore usb_common ata_generic ata_piix ahci libahci libata [ 17.766525] Pid: 474, comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.4.0-rc7-wl+ #6 [ 17.766528] Call Trace: [ 17.766541] [<c066ad08>] ? printk+0x28/0x2a [ 17.766552] [<c0230edd>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6d/0xa0 [ 17.766563] [<e0b253bc>] ? wiphy_register+0x34c/0x3c0 [cfg80211] [ 17.766573] [<e0b253bc>] ? wiphy_register+0x34c/0x3c0 [cfg80211] [ 17.766578] [<c0230f2d>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20 [ 17.766588] [<e0b253bc>] wiphy_register+0x34c/0x3c0 [cfg80211] [ 17.766605] [<e0b5b0d6>] ipw2100_wdev_init+0x196/0x1c0 [ipw2100] [ 17.766616] [<e0b5d962>] ipw2100_pci_init_one+0x2b2/0x694 [ipw2100] [ 17.766632] [<c047ce52>] local_pci_probe+0x42/0xb0 [ 17.766637] [<c047e2b0>] pci_device_probe+0x60/0x90 [ 17.766645] [<c0376de2>] ? sysfs_create_link+0x12/0x20 [ 17.766654] [<c050f1f6>] really_probe+0x56/0x2e0 [ 17.766659] [<c037636d>] ? create_dir+0x5d/0xa0 [ 17.766667] [<c0518c6b>] ? pm_runtime_barrier+0x3b/0xa0 [ 17.766672] [<c050f5e4>] driver_probe_device+0x44/0xa0 [ 17.766677] [<c047e227>] ? pci_match_device+0x97/0xa0 [ 17.766681] [<c050f6c9>] __driver_attach+0x89/0x90 [ 17.766686] [<c050f640>] ? driver_probe_device+0xa0/0xa0 [ 17.766691] [<c050da2a>] bus_for_each_dev+0x3a/0x70 [ 17.766695] [<c050ee6c>] driver_attach+0x1c/0x30 [ 17.766699] [<c050f640>] ? driver_probe_device+0xa0/0xa0 [ 17.766704] [<c050ea77>] bus_add_driver+0x187/0x280 [ 17.766710] [<c045b9cd>] ? kset_find_obj+0x2d/0x60 [ 17.766715] [<c047e2e0>] ? pci_device_probe+0x90/0x90 [ 17.766719] [<c047e2e0>] ? pci_device_probe+0x90/0x90 [ 17.766724] [<c050fb85>] driver_register+0x65/0x110 [ 17.766729] [<c047e09d>] __pci_register_driver+0x3d/0xa0 [ 17.766738] [<e09f705c>] ipw2100_init+0x5c/0x1000 [ipw2100] [ 17.766743] [<c020110f>] do_one_initcall+0x2f/0x170 [ 17.766749] [<e09f7000>] ? 0xe09f6fff [ 17.766757] [<c0287ce8>] sys_init_module+0xa8/0x210 [ 17.766766] [<c067a075>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [ 17.766769] ---[ end trace 559898c6bb0d1c75 ]--- [ 17.767093] ipw2100: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5 This warning appears only if we apply Ben Hutchings' fix http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=132720204412667&w=2 for the bug reported by Cesare Leonardi http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656813 with cfg80211 warning during device registration ("cfg80211: failed to add phy80211 symlink to netdev!"). We separate device bring up and registration with network stack to avoid the problem. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Yakovlev<stas.yakovlev@xxxxxxxxx> --- Larry, can you test it once again?
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Yes, this patch fixes the problem. Larry -- 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
