On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 18:52 +0530, Mahesh Palivela wrote: > >> dev->ethtools_ops is assigned during > >> NETDEV_REGISTER and the same can be cleared during NETDEV_UNREGISTER. > > > > This doesn't make any sense to me at all. > > > cleanup of ethtools_ops pointer is required upon netdev_unreg > notification. we are assigning this pointer to cfg80211_ethtool_ops on > netdev_reg notification. Is it not required? > > we have seen crash when keeping cfg80211 and mac80211 loaded and lmac > driver unloaded. With this fix, we didn't see crash. Crash doesn't > happen right away. Only when some operation trying to access ethtool_ops. I don't see how anything could access ethtool_ops after the netdev is unregistered. johannes -- 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
