Re: [PATCH] fix airo oops-on-removal

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 05:31:51PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> airo creates /proc/driver/aironet/<device name> on device activation.
> However, the device can be renamed - then on teardown
> it tries to remove the wrong directory. The removal of 
> /proc/driver/aironet then runs afoul of the BUG_ON() in remove_proc_entry.
> 
> This fixes it by keeping a copy of the name of the directory
> it created.
> 
> (It doesn't actually solve the problem of the stats directory
> still being /proc/driver/aironet/eth0 when you rename the device
> to, say, 'joe'. But that patch would be a little less trivial.)

Still sounds like a rather broken behaviour.  We should probably
nuke that whole procfs interface thingy instead.

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