Re: cfg80211: failed to add phy80211 symlink to netdev!

Re: cfg80211: failed to add phy80211 symlink to netdev!

[Cesare Leonardi]

Package: linux-2.6
Followup-For: Bug #656813

I admit that starting from the Stanislaw Gruszka's reply i was a bit
lost in this bug report...

With this followup i only wanted to say that with the kernel 3.5 the
message "cfg80211: failed to add phy80211 symlink to netdev!" is gone.

Now i see a "lpc_ich 0000:00:1f.0: I/O space for GPIO uninitialized",
but i think it's another unrelated issue, isn't it? Looking around seems
to be related to some hardware not available on my old Centrino.

Cesare.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-486
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Re: cfg80211: failed to add phy80211 symlink to netdev!

[Jonathan Nieder]

reassign 656813 src:linux linux-2.6/3.2.1-1
# 3.0->3.1 regression
severity 656813 important
found 656813 linux/3.2.21-3, linux/3.4.4-1~experimental.1
fixed 656813 linux/3.5-1~experimental.1
quit

Cesare Leonardi wrote:

> I admit that starting from the Stanislaw Gruszka's reply i was a bit
> lost in this bug report...
>
> With this followup i only wanted to say that with the kernel 3.5 the
> message "cfg80211: failed to add phy80211 symlink to netdev!" is gone.

Hurrah, thanks for testing.

Relevant patches:

  7ed85b65ab61 net/wireless: ipw2200: Fix WARN_ON occurring in
               wiphy_register called by ipw_pci_probe
  b4050790d0a6 ipw2200: Fix order of device registration
  e19d8baf8cfc ipw2100: Fix order of device registration
  aac495a8002b net/wireless: ipw2100: Fix WARN_ON occurring in
               wiphy_register called by ipw2100_pci_init_one

They apply cleanly to 3.2.y, though I haven't tested them.  If you'd
like instructions for trying a backport, please don't hesitate to ask.

Ciao,
Jonathan