RE: [PATCH] iwl3945: Fix oops at module load
From: Berg, Johannes
Date: Mon Nov 08 2010 - 17:01:36 EST
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On my laptop the iwl3945 driver oopsed at boot with 2.6.37-rc1
> in __dev_printk.
>
> The problem is that for some reason it prints the sw scan
> warning, but does that before the pci device is initialized
> in the driver private structure. This leads to an oops
> in the warning print code.
>
> Move the warning after the device has been initialized.
Yup, something like this is needed, sorry about this!
I believe we have a fix for this in the pipeline somewhere.
johannes
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