Bug#656813: cfg80211: failed to add phy80211 symlink to netdev!

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

reassign 656813 src:linux linux-2.6/3.2.1-1
# 3.0->3.1 regression
severity 656813 important
found 656813 linux/3.2.21-3, linux/3.4.4-1~experimental.1
fixed 656813 linux/3.5-1~experimental.1
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Cesare Leonardi wrote:

> I admit that starting from the Stanislaw Gruszka's reply i was a bit
> lost in this bug report...
>
> With this followup i only wanted to say that with the kernel 3.5 the
> message "cfg80211: failed to add phy80211 symlink to netdev!" is gone.

Hurrah, thanks for testing.

Relevant patches:

  7ed85b65ab61 net/wireless: ipw2200: Fix WARN_ON occurring in
               wiphy_register called by ipw_pci_probe
  b4050790d0a6 ipw2200: Fix order of device registration
  e19d8baf8cfc ipw2100: Fix order of device registration
  aac495a8002b net/wireless: ipw2100: Fix WARN_ON occurring in
               wiphy_register called by ipw2100_pci_init_one

They apply cleanly to 3.2.y, though I haven't tested them.  If you'd
like instructions for trying a backport, please don't hesitate to ask.

Ciao,
Jonathan