From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: don't assume driver has been attached on registration
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:31:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081115003131.GA10702@hash.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226704464.4120.32.camel@johannes.berg>
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:14:24AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > In the reported case, wiphy_name will be empty string which isn't too
> > helpful for the workqueue name either, though it probably won't crash.
>
> That can't be right! wiphy_name is assigned right in wiphy_new()!
I know, it doesn't make any sense. But the posted dmesg clearly shows
ath5k printing the wiphy_name (after ieee80211_alloc_hw returned not
null): "ath5k_pci xxxx registered as ''". So, something really odd is
going on.
--
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-15 0:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-14 22:44 [PATCH] mac80211: don't assume driver has been attached on registration Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-14 23:05 ` Bob Copeland
2008-11-14 23:14 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-15 0:31 ` Bob Copeland [this message]
2008-11-16 6:21 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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