Subject: Re: Kernel oops when loading ath5k from compat-wireless in 2.6.27
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 12:01 -0600, Dan McGee wrote:

> I had not seen this cfg80211 stuff before when modprobing. I also see
> that cfg80211 is now loaded as a module- was the fact that it was
> built into the kernel before causing all these problems? That would be
> my strong suspicion, in which case this entire thread is really a bum
> bug report, except that compat-wireless should enforce that cfg80211
> is a module just like it currently enforces that for mac80211, saving
> someone else this headache.

Let me guess, symbol versioning was off?

johannes

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