Re: [Ipw2100-devel] 2.6.32-rc4 ipw2200: oops on missing firmware

John W. Linville
2009-10-15T13:02:04Z

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 02:50:28PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote:

> OK. The rfkill device is removed without being added before! The root
> cause is, for non-monitor interfaces, the syntax for
> alloc_ieee80211/free_80211 is wrong. Because alloc_ieee80211 only
> creates (wiphy_new) a wiphy, but free_80211() does wiphy_unregister()
> also. This is only correct when the later wiphy_register() is called
> successfully, which apparently is not the case for your fw doesn't exist
> one. Please see if this patch fix the problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>

Thanks, Zhu! That certainly looks better than what I had.

John
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