Return-path: Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.30]:14019 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752721AbYKPSUZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:20:25 -0500 Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so905904yxm.1 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:20:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43e72e890811161020n2647416doda69839f2a6ba93@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20081116_192029_417336_AB0BA52E) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:20:24 -0800 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: "Johannes Berg" Subject: Re: Kernel oops when loading ath5k from compat-wireless in 2.6.27 Cc: "Dan McGee" , "Bob Copeland" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "Michael Buesch" In-Reply-To: <1226858723.3599.2.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 References: <20081116055312.GA14126@hash.localnet> <43e72e890811152205k13318ab7yad8695d9f6dd409c@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890811152206s3683ecabm658fac255112a262@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890811152215h5cf389a3ufe4dc10b021b0c0f@mail.gmail.com> <20081116162019.GA15851@hash.localnet> <449c10960811160838h70fd1852g66d8a51c7551530b@mail.gmail.com> <20081116165213.GC14126@hash.localnet> <449c10960811161001h547a7ab0l937bba6bec9d46aa@mail.gmail.com> <1226858723.3599.2.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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? /me adds complaint on compat-wireless if cfg80211 is built in