mac80211: don't assume driver has been attached on registration
authorLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:44:22 +0000 (14:44 -0800)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:41:40 +0000 (16:41 -0500)
commit4ada424db196c78746fec255d493cacb1c9feddf
tree8fc36e480aa46b8cfebd6aff95b8d1a40b910f33
parent4d3601b234a51fdd268c8ef8068d239e26dd7ef1
mac80211: don't assume driver has been attached on registration

mac80211's ieee80211_register_hw() is often called within the
probe path so it cannot assume the device's driver structure
has been attached yet so to create a workqueue instead of
using driver->name use the wiphy's phy%d name. The name doesn't
really matter anyway.

This should fix sporadic oopses found when we race to beat the
driver pointer setting. Not even sure how this was working properly.

http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=ieee80211_register_hw

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/mac80211/main.c