Re: [RFT 0/4] ath9k: fix oops during driver unload

[Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:23:17AM +0530, Luis Rodriguez wrote:
> This should fix an oops reported by Vasanth.
> Vasanth my rc3 poos out, can you let me know if this
> fixes the issue you saw?
> 
> Luis R. Rodriguez (4):
>   ath9k: move common->debug_mask setting to ath_init_softc()
>   ath9k: fix oops during unload -- initialize hw prior to debugfs
>   ath9k: add helper to un-init the hw properly
>   ath9k: rename ath_beaconq_setup() to ath9k_hw_beaconq_setup()
> 
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.h          |    6 ++++
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.h  |    1 -
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/beacon.c |   12 -------
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/debug.c  |    5 ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c     |   11 ++++++-
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.c    |   13 ++++++++
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/mac.h    |    1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c   |   50 ++++++++++++++++++------------
>  8 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> 

The issue is not fixed completely, ah->common is used after ah is
freed in ath_cleanup() which makes rmmod ath9k stuck in the middle.

Vasanth