Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:55481 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933619AbZJONCC (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:02:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:59:33 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Zhu Yi Cc: Frans Pop , Ferenc Wagner , "ipw2100-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Ipw2100-devel] 2.6.32-rc4 ipw2200: oops on missing firmware Message-ID: <20091015125933.GA2809@tuxdriver.com> References: <87hbu3h023.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <200910131855.25878.elendil@planet.nl> <1255589428.3719.465.camel@debian> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1255589428.3719.465.camel@debian> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 02:50:28PM +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > OK. The rfkill device is removed without being added before! The root > cause is, for non-monitor interfaces, the syntax for > alloc_ieee80211/free_80211 is wrong. Because alloc_ieee80211 only > creates (wiphy_new) a wiphy, but free_80211() does wiphy_unregister() > also. This is only correct when the later wiphy_register() is called > successfully, which apparently is not the case for your fw doesn't exist > one. Please see if this patch fix the problem. > > Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi Thanks, Zhu! That certainly looks better than what I had. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.