Re: Problems with 2.6.30-rc1

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I had the same problem on my iwlagn notebook.  This patch successfully 
fixed that as well!

Thanks, Larry :)

Ehud

Larry Finger wrote:
> If you are having problems with wireless networking using 2.6.30-rc1 from
> Linus's Linux-2.6 git tree, the fix is the following (Note: This is _NOT_ needed
> for wireless-testing!!!):
>
> ---
> Fix try_then_request_module to use waiting __request_module again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/kmod.h |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.30-rc1/include/linux/kmod.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.30-rc1.orig/include/linux/kmod.h	2009-04-08 12:47:54.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.30-rc1/include/linux/kmod.h	2009-04-08 17:39:35.000000000 +0200
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ extern int __request_module(bool wait, c
>  #define request_module(mod...) __request_module(true, mod)
>  #define request_module_nowait(mod...) __request_module(false, mod)
>  #define try_then_request_module(x, mod...) \
> -	((x) ?: (__request_module(false, mod), (x)))
> +	((x) ?: (__request_module(true, mod), (x)))
>  #else
>  static inline int request_module(const char *name, ...) { return -ENOSYS; }
>  static inline int request_module_nowait(const char *name, ...) { return -ENOSYS; }
>
>   

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