Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f11.google.com ([209.85.217.11]:51997 "EHLO mail-gx0-f11.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751295AbYKNSkG (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:40:06 -0500 Received: by mail-gx0-f11.google.com with SMTP id 4so783167gxk.13 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:40:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43e72e890811141037j5328f71fx7badb6f2b0e0831d@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20081114_194013_607102_689D5B0B) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:37:11 -0800 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Sujith Subject: Re: Kernel oops when loading ath5k from compat-wireless in 2.6.27 Cc: "Bob Copeland" , "Dan McGee" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "Michael Buesch" , "Johannes Berg" In-Reply-To: <18717.50308.330801.765686@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 References: <449c10960811132146s40aef6c6ue8dfeef5ba29812a@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890811132217k160db63ch77e7d03c38e81d5f@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890811140937h4dc03cf8g50df7f74efcd28b2@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890811141006x1c396c78ube87a526f1435676@mail.gmail.com> <18717.49111.572993.44410@localhost.localdomain> <43e72e890811141029q24ad722fi6a7ae1e7dcd463bd@mail.gmail.com> <18717.50308.330801.765686@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Sujith wrote: > Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> > From the original log: >> > ath5k_pci 0000:01:00.0: registered as '' >> >> That comes from >> >> dev_info(&pdev->dev, "registered as '%s'\n", wiphy_name(hw->wiphy)); >> >> which means that may be buggy too as wiphy_name() gets >> >> return wiphy->dev.bus_id; >> >> and we only have set at that point wiphy->dev.parent IIRC. >> > > Nope, parent is set after that call in SET_IEEE80211_DEV() > phy[x] gets assigned in alloc_hw(). > > So why is it NULL even if alloc_hw() succeeds ? Parent is wiphy->dev.parent not wiphy->dev though Luis