iwlwifi: unregister to upper stack before releasing resources
This patch fixes an early release of driver's resources before upper stack
was notified that low-level driver shuts down.
Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
index ae4e53f..e98695f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
@@ -8207,6 +8207,11 @@
IWL_DEBUG_INFO("*** UNLOAD DRIVER ***\n");
+ if (priv->mac80211_registered) {
+ ieee80211_unregister_hw(priv->hw);
+ priv->mac80211_registered = 0;
+ }
+
set_bit(STATUS_EXIT_PENDING, &priv->status);
iwl4965_down(priv);
@@ -8241,9 +8246,6 @@
iwl4965_unset_hw_setting(priv);
iwlcore_clear_stations_table(priv);
- if (priv->mac80211_registered) {
- ieee80211_unregister_hw(priv->hw);
- }
/*netif_stop_queue(dev); */
flush_workqueue(priv->workqueue);