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On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 02:15 +0530, Krishna Chaitanya wrote:

> From the logs it looks like "rate_control_alloc" is failed,
> causing ieee80211_register_hw to fail triggering the crash.

Yes.

> what RC are u using? Default should be minstrel, i dont see
> a reason for rc alloc to fail (remote reason kmalloc failure),
> so did you disable RC completely? No prints either w.r.t RC either in
> dmesg?

Pay attention to the .config.

johannes