Re: Kernel oops when loading ath5k from compat-wireless in 2.6.27

[Sujith <m.sujith@gmail.com>]

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Anyway we do set the parent before calling ieee80211_register_hw() by
> >> using SET_IEEE80211_DEV(hw, &pdev->dev) (oh ok here is the parent). so
> >> when we try to get the name with parent->driver I am not sure if
> >> driver has been set yet because ath5k_pci_probe() hasn't finished yet
> >> as probe called ath5k_hw_attach(). When does ->driver get set and why
> >> would it fail only for ath5k?
> >
> > Ahh, I believe that would be in pci-driver.c __pci_device_probe, after driver
> > probe is run successfully.  Yes, we do ieee80211_register_hw from within
> > probe...  So, how did this ever work again? /me scratches head.
> 
> Wow.. ok, yeah I see that, this is a mac8021 bug then unless mac80211
> wants us to not callieee80211_register_hw() from probe or its children
> which would be weird.

>From the original log:
ath5k_pci 0000:01:00.0: registered as ''

Sujith