Re: [staging: r8192ee] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at net/mac80211/rate.c:43 ieee80211_rate_control_register()

[Jet Chen]

On 05/27/2014 01:07 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 05/26/2014 09:55 AM, Jet Chen wrote:
> 
> Jet,
> 
>> 0day kernel testing robot got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is
>>
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git staging-next
>> commit 0629f3b8c33899140b48d5897259eab8ebae78ca
>> Author:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> AuthorDate: Wed May 21 16:25:36 2014 -0500
>> Commit:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CommitDate: Fri May 23 11:33:56 2014 +0900
>>
>>      staging: r8192ee: Turn on build of the new driver
>>          In addition, this commit contains a TODO file for this driver
>>          Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>      Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The splat comes from the driver trying to register a rate-control algorithm that 
> is already registered. That could happen because a driver is calling the 
> registration routine twice, or because more than one driver is using the same 
> routine name. As I think there is code to prevent the former, and I have never 
> seen that splat here, I suspect that more than one driver has used the name. On 
> my real hardware, I can only have one of these devices in the machine at a time.
> 
> Is if possible to test the attached patch to see if it fixes the problem? If 
> not, could you get a listing of the loaded modules at the time of the splat? If 
> this is not the fix, I will try to duplicate it here.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Larry
> 

That patch fixes the problem.

Tested-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Jet
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