Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:52:53 +0200 | From | Daniel Mack <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net/wireless/libertas: do not call wiphy_unregister() w/o wiphy_register() |
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:49:07AM +0200, Holger Schurig wrote: > > The libertas driver calls wiphy_unregister() without a prior > > wiphy_register() when a devices fails initialization. Fix this by > > introducing a private flag. > > Nice. > > However, I wonder: do we really need a private variable? Does each driver > introduce a private variable for this?
I didn't check other drivers thoroughly. I just saw the comment on the function which does the wiphy allocation and considered libertas to be special in the way it deals with the wireless core:
/* * At this time lbs_private *priv doesn't even exist, so we just allocate * memory and don't initialize the wiphy further. This is postponed until we * can talk to the firmware and happens at registration time in * lbs_cfg_wiphy_register(). */
And as I didn't find any function to tell me whether a wiphy has been registered and not just allocated, I saw no other way than manually track what the libertas driver does.
If there's any better solution, I'd happily test it.
Thanks, Daniel
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