Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:35:08 +0100
From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1
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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:39:17 -0800,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:22:25 -0500 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:
> 
> > With the latest -mm, I'm now getting this:
> > 
> > Mar 21 15:06:52 cinder kernel: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless
> > 2200BG Network Connection
> > Mar 21 15:06:52 cinder kernel: firmware_loading_store: unexpected
> > value (0)
> > Mar 21 15:06:52 cinder kernel: ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw
> > request_firmware failed:
> > Reason -2
> > Mar 21 15:06:52 cinder kernel: ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
> > Mar 21 15:06:52 cinder kernel: ipw2200: failed to register network
> > device
> 
> The firmware loading bug is caused by
> driver-core-handles-kobject_uevent-failure-while-device_add.patch

Hm, this patch looks sane. It might be a good idea to enable
CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT and find out why kobject_uevent() actually fails
in this case...