From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Subject: Re: Kernel oops when loading ath5k from compat-wireless in 2.6.27
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:53:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081116055312.GA14126@hash.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890811152148q5f65aa43u49555a3977c205ff@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 09:48:13PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Not sure why its 00000001, nor do I know if its poison. One thing I am
> fairly positive about is that the reason why this was wrong all along
> was because we were trying to get the device's ->driver structure to
> get driver->name but the device won't get its ->driver pointer
> assigned until *after* a successful probe. Lets review the PCI probe:
No, as I later corrected myself, that is pci_dev->driver, but what
mac80211 is using is pci_dev->dev.driver. Which actually happens to be
set up fine. (I verified this by inserting a printk into the ath5k
driver and it all works fine.)
> Yeah don't bother, the issue on this e-mail was fixed, another issue
> has come up though so that is separate.
I think the second issue is just the first issue, but the fix papered
over the first bug.
--
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-16 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-14 5:46 Kernel oops when loading ath5k from compat-wireless in 2.6.27 Dan McGee
2008-11-14 6:17 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-14 17:02 ` Bob Copeland
2008-11-14 17:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-14 17:49 ` Bob Copeland
2008-11-14 18:06 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-14 18:13 ` Sujith
2008-11-14 18:29 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-14 18:33 ` Sujith
2008-11-14 18:37 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-14 19:33 ` Dan McGee
2008-11-14 20:33 ` Bob Copeland
2008-11-14 20:41 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-14 21:13 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-15 0:25 ` Dan McGee
2008-11-15 0:36 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-15 2:05 ` Dan McGee
2008-11-15 2:29 ` Bob Copeland
2008-11-15 2:57 ` Dan McGee
2008-11-15 6:30 ` Dan McGee
[not found] ` <449c10960811142229v77ea85f4nf898d447c7e63422@mail.gmail.com>
2008-11-15 18:19 ` Bob Copeland
2008-11-16 0:12 ` Dan McGee
2008-11-15 0:38 ` Bob Copeland
2008-11-14 18:34 ` Bob Copeland
2008-11-16 2:11 ` Dan McGee
2008-11-16 2:38 ` Dan McGee
2008-11-16 5:48 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-16 5:53 ` Bob Copeland [this message]
2008-11-16 6:05 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-16 6:06 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-16 6:15 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-16 16:20 ` Bob Copeland
2008-11-16 16:38 ` Dan McGee
2008-11-16 16:52 ` Bob Copeland
2008-11-16 18:01 ` Dan McGee
2008-11-16 18:05 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-16 18:20 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-11-16 5:55 ` Bob Copeland
2008-11-14 13:18 ` Bob Copeland
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