Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:11:28 +0300
From: Nikolai ZHUBR <zhubr@mail.ru>
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Subject: Re[8]: cfg80211 and rfkill_backport question.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 6:24:11 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>> From what I checked it all looks fine to me, except that there is
>> a circular dependency between cfg80211 and rfkill_backport (which
>> is confirmed by nm output I suppose). Is this circular dependency
>> intentional? Or, could it be avoided? (My understanding was that
>> as module loader loads one file at a time, it just have no way
>> to resolve such symbols, maybe I'm wrong on this)

> Hmm, yes and no... insmod loads modules one at a time; but as long as
> you run depmod, modprobe loads dependent modules automatically. I
> don't know if modprobe works for circular dependency, but it probably
> works correctly (since AFAIK, it reference-counts)?
Well, maybe modprobe is smart enough these days already, but openwrt
doesn't have it.
Anyway.
Circular dependency issue is now gone together with rfkill_backport
as I don't need rfkill at this point.
"Unable to reserve mem region" error was probably MIPS-related or
PCI-related and gone after cold reboot.

Now here is another:
 in function wiphy_register (net/wireless/core.c):
   device_add returns an error (-22)

Looks like some problem in mac80211<-->kernel_2.6.25 communication?
 
regards,
 Nikolai